Funded Projects
For a list of pilot projects funded through the CEG (NIEHS award P30 ES006096) between 2012 and 2020 View Pilots Awards.
Recent recipients of CEG pilot funds to date are as follows:
| Year | Category | PI | Dept/Div | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Affinity Group | Scott Langevin, PhD, MHA, CT(ASCP) | Epidemiology | Aluminum and selenium burden and frontotemporal dementia |
| 2022 | Affinity Group | Chunying Du, PhD | Cancer and Cell Biology | Mechanisms underlying the Protective Role of BRUCE in PFOS Hepatotoxicity |
| 2022 | Translation & Community Engagment | Simone Balachandran, PhD, PE | Environmental Engineering | Spatiotemporal Monitoring Using Distributed Low-Cost Air Pollution Sensors for Community Engagement and Public Health |
| 2022 | Time Sensitive Response (TSR) | Mary Beth Genter, PhD | Environmental Genetics & Molecular Toxicology | Role of GRP4 in the olfactory system |
| 2022 | Time Sensitive Response (TSR) | Chia-I Ko, PhD | Environmental Genetics & Molecular Toxicology | Disruption of DNA methylation in zygote by TCDD exposure |
| 2022 | Time Sensitive Response (TSR) | Susan M. Pinney, PhD, FACE | Epidemiology | Breast cancer in women with environmental uranium exposure |
| 2022 | Time Sensitive Response (TSR) | Chunying Du, PhD | Cancer & Cell Biology | Single-cell transcriptomics to reveal PFOS induced hepatotoxicity in NASH |
| 2022 | Time Sensitive Response (TSR) | Dionysious Dionysiou, PhD | Environmental Engineering | Climate impact on harmful algal bloom-related health risks: Cyanotoxin congener distribution and gene-toxin interactions |
| 2021 | Affinity Group | Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD | Dermatology | Activation of the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) prevents melanoma formation by mitigating solar UV-induced oxidative stress via promoting autophagy |
| 2021 | Innovator | Kyounghyun Kim, PhD | Environmental Genetics & Molecular Toxicology | Epigenetic Alterations and Toxicant-induced Liver injury and Cancer |
| 2021 | New to EHS | Nalinikanth Kotagiri, MD, PhD | Pharmacy | Programming Skin Microbiome against Environmental Pollutants |
| 2021 | Translation and Community Engagement | Patrick H. Ryan, PhD, FACE | Pediatrics | CCHMC Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology | Community Engaged Low-Cost Air Monitoring in Lower Price Hill |
| 2021 | Innovator | Debajyoti Ghosh, PhD | Internal Medicine, Allergy | Elucidating the mechanism of Atopic Dermatitis induced by maternal exposure to phthalate compounds |
| 2021 | Innovator | Susan M. Pinney, PhD, FACE | Epidemiology | Airborne uranium exposure and incidence of breast cancer in a population living near a uranium refinery |
| 2021 | Affinity Group | Chunying Du, PhD | Cancer and Cell Biology | Mechanisms of liver disease progression initiated by environmental genotoxin |
| 2021 | Affinity Group | Jagjit Yadav, PhD | Toxicology | Nanoparticle-induced Lung Immunotoxicity and Dysbiosis Mechanisms using Single Cell Transcriptomics Approach |
| 2021 | New Investigator | Jun Wang, PhD, PE, CIH, CSP | Environmental and Industrial Hygiene | Chemical and Toxicological Paradigm shift of Air Pollution in a Post Pandemic World |
| 2021 | Time Sensitive Response (TSR) | Kyounghyun Kim, PhD | Environmental Genetics & Molecular Toxicology | Role of AHR in Pancreatic Pathogenesis |
| 2020 | New to EHS | Francis X. McCoormack, MD | UC COM Internal Med Pulmonary | Osteoclast-like Cells in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Fibrosis |
| 2020 | New Investigator | Kelly Brunst, PhD | DEPHS Epi | Flouride exposure, mitochondrial function and mental health |
| 2020 | Affinity Group | Jagjit S. Yadav, PD | DEPHS Tox | Nanoparticle x Gene Interactions Governing Lung Infection Susceptibility |
| 2020 | Affinity Group | Tesfaye Mersha, PhD | CCHMC Allergy | Genomics and geospatial analyses of racial disparities in childhood asthma |
| 2020 | Affinity Group | Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD | UC COM Dermatology | A Novel Photoprotective Role of MC1R: Reduction of Solar UV-Induced Oxidative RNA Damage |
| 2020 | Innovator | Chia-I Ko, PhD | DEPHS Tox | Disruption of pluripotency and differentiation of preimplantation embryonic cells by dioxin exposure |
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Room 210
160 Panzeca Way
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056
Mail Location: 0056
Phone: 513-558-3646
Email: donovata@ucmail.uc.edu