Center for Rural and Environmental Health

德克萨斯农工大学环境与农村健康中心（CERH）的成立是为了支持环境健康科学领域最先进的研究，并将这些知识转化为可以被德克萨斯州及其他地区的农村社区轻松采用的概念和原则。环境研究中心提供行政基础设施和技术支持，以促进对环境疾病基本机制的多学科研究，从基因到有机体水平，从分子到社会因素。中心研究人员的研究活动集中在四个主要领域：生物统计学和社区卫生、化学生物学、营养学、生殖和发育生物学。每个研究核心都由代表整个大学多个部门和项目的高级和初级研究人员组成。这些研究人员的资助研究得到六个设施核心的加强，这些设施核心提供资源，以协助使用分析、生物统计学和计算、基因组学和生物信息学、成像、蛋白质化学和转基因技术的实验。试点项目计划每年最多支持5个与中心研究重点相关的探索性研究项目。社区外展和教育计划提供了一种机制，将CERH研究人员的重要研究成果传播到农村社区，特别是下里约热内卢格兰德河谷。

The Center for Environmental and Rural Health (CERH) at Texas A&M University was created to support state-of-the-art research in the environmental health sciences and to translate this knowledge into concepts and principles that can be easily adopted by rural communities in the State of Texas and beyond. The CERH provides administrative infrastructure and technical support to foster multidisciplinary research into basic mechanisms of environmental disease, from the gene to the organismal level, from molecules to social factors. The research activities of Center investigators have been clustered into four major areas: Biostatistics and Community Health, Chemical Biology, Nutrition, and Reproductive and Developmental Biology. Each of these Research Cores consists of senior and junior investigators representing multiple departments and programs throughout the University. The funded research of these investigators is enhanced by six Facility Cores that provide resources to assist with experiments involving the use of Analytical, Biostatistics and Computational, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Imaging, Protein Chemistry, and Transgenic technologies. The Pilot Project Program supports up to 5 exploratory research projects per year related to the research focus of the Center. A Community Outreach and Educational Program provides a mechanism for dissemination of important research findings of CERH investigators to rural communities, especially in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.