The MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences, through support from the NIH-NIEHS Center Grant P30-ES002109, has awarded one basic science and one translational pilot projects with a start date of September 1, 2016 from the May pilot project call released this year.
BASIC SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
From Understanding of Interrupting Bacterial Pathogenesis
These pilot studies are expected to demonstrate that chemotactic sensing occurs via a specific molecular motion.
- Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
TRANSLATIONAL APPLICATIONS
Lineage Sequencing’ for Deeper Insights into Exposure-induced Somatic Mutations
We wish to measure mutation accumulation process within cells with and without mismatch repair deficiency.
- Paul Blainey
Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering
Connecting Mercury Sources to Community Exposure through Modeling
This proposal connects community-driven concerns to translational application with a focus of preventative action, linking to regulation and policy. It thus informs both upstream (global and national policy and regulation) and point-of-exposure efforts to improve human health.
- Noelle Selin
Associate Professor, Institute for Data Systems and Society, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
THERON RANDOLPH APPLICATIONS
Nickel Allergy and Proinflammatory Proteins
The goal of this pilot research initiative is to evaluate a putative role for the proinflammatory proteins calprotectin (CP, S100A8/S100A9) and psoriasin (S100A7) in contact hypersensitivity to nickel, a metal ion that is a component of many consumer products and causes skin allergy in humans.
- Elizabeth Nolan
Associate Professor, Chemistry