Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences

阿巴拉契亚环境科学研究中心

• 批准号: 9270969
• 负责人: Xianglin Shi
• 金额: $ 149.65万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9270969
• 关键词: Address; Air; Analytical Chemistry; Appalachian Region; Area; Arsenic; Asthma; Atherosclerosis; Awareness; Bioinformatics; Chemicals; Child health care; Chromium; Chronic Disease; Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease; Clinical; Collaborations; Colorectal Cancer; Communication; Communities; Community Outreach; Complex; Computational Biology; Core Facility; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Ecology; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Risk Factor; Exposure to; Fostering; Foundations; Funding; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Goals; Health; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Heart; Heart Diseases; Heavy Metals; Human; Incidence; Individual; Integrative Medicine; Interest Group; Kentucky; Leadership; Longevity; Malignant Neoplasms; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Medical; Medical center; Mentorship; Metabolic Diseases; Mining; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Nickel; Obesity; Outcome; Particulate; Pilot Projects; Population; Positioning Attribute; Public Health; Pulmonary Heart Disease; Radon; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Rivers; Rural; Science; Scientist; Stimulus; Structure; Talents; Toxic Environmental Substances; Toxicology; Training; Training Activity; Translations; Universities; Vision; Water; base; career; career development; early life exposure; innovation; interest; member; metabolomics; neonate; novel; population health; programs; socioeconomic disadvantage; water quality

PROJECT SUMMARY – Overall The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES) will establish an Environmental Health Sciences Core Center to enhance research capacity focused on major environmental health impacts to air and water quality that have been implicated in environmentally induced disease. This Center will provide advanced infrastructure and leading expertise, dedicated career development and mentorship, and community-engaged interactions to facilitate innovative discovery and new understandings of environmental factors in disease initiation, progression, and outcomes and their community impacts. The central hypothesis is that toxic environmental agents are contributors to the disproportionately high incidence of chronic diseases, e.g., cancers, cardiopulmonary disease, and metabolic disorders in Appalachian Kentucky and that the impacts of early exposure are especially harmful. UK-CARES draws on a strong and diverse base of environmental health science and community-engaged research to build environmental health research capacity to meet the needs of communities in three Area Development Districts in southeastern Kentucky: Big Sandy, Kentucky River, and Cumberland Valley. Center members bring notable strengths in environmental health across four Research Interest Groups: Cardiopulmonary Diseases, Metabolic Disorders, Cancer, and Child Health and Early Life Exposures. To achieve the Center’s goal, UK-CARES will: 1) establish a rich research environment and a framework for transdisciplinary leadership and integrated infrastructure to facilitate collaboration and efficient use of resources for research expansion and development of new scientific directions; 2) build research capacity in environmental health sciences by providing an outstanding intellectual environment and advanced infrastructure to support innovation and community engagement; 3) recruit new talent and facilitate career development of investigators whose research addresses critical issues in environmentally induced disease through mentorship and structured career training activities; 4) develop multi-directional and mutually beneficial communications and interactions with community residents, policymakers, and public health/healthcare professionals to identify environmental concerns of target communities as a stimulus to new research; and 5) bridge the gap between discovery of novel research findings and population-level awareness and practice via community-focused science communication training. An Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, Analytical Core, and Community Outreach and Engagement Core are integral to this effort and will catalyze multi-directional translation across the whole spectrum of research; provide advanced analytical support in metabolomics, computational biology, analytical chemistry, biospecimen management, and bioinformatics; and bridge Center and community priorities. Complementary activities in career development of scientists who are interested in tackling challenging environmental health questions and pilot project funding will support developing research and evolving scientific directions.

项目概要-总体 肯塔基州大学阿巴拉契亚环境科学研究中心（UK-CARES）将 建立一个环境健康科学核心中心，以提高研究能力，重点是主要 环境健康对空气和水质的影响， 疾病该中心将提供先进的基础设施和领先的专业知识， 和指导，以及社区参与的互动，以促进创新发现和新的理解 环境因素在疾病的发生、发展、转归及其对社区的影响。的 中心假设是，有毒环境因素是造成不成比例的高发病率的原因， 慢性疾病，例如，肯塔基州阿巴拉契亚地区的癌症、心肺疾病和代谢紊乱 早期接触的影响尤其有害。UK-CARES拥有强大而多样化的基础 环境健康科学和社区参与的研究，以建立环境健康研究 满足肯塔基州东南部三个地区发展区社区需求的能力： 桑迪、肯塔基州河和坎伯兰谷。中心成员在环境保护方面具有显著优势 四个研究兴趣组的健康：心脏病，代谢紊乱，癌症， 儿童健康和早期生活暴露。为了实现中心的目标，UK-CARES将：1）建立一个丰富的 研究环境和跨学科领导和综合基础设施的框架，以促进 协作和有效利用资源，以扩大研究和发展新的科学方向; 2)通过提供优秀的知识环境，建立环境健康科学的研究能力 和先进的基础设施，以支持创新和社区参与; 3）招募新的人才， 促进其研究涉及环境方面关键问题的调查人员的职业发展 通过师友和有组织的职业培训活动， 与社区居民、政策制定者和公众进行互利的沟通和互动 健康/医疗保健专业人员，以确定目标社区的环境问题，作为刺激新的 研究; 5）弥合发现新的研究成果与人口水平认识之间的差距 并通过以社区为中心的科学传播培训进行实践。综合健康科学设施 核心、分析核心和社区外展与参与核心是这项工作的组成部分， 促进整个研究领域的多方向转化;提供先进的分析 支持代谢组学、计算生物学、分析化学、生物标本管理，以及 生物信息学;以及桥梁中心和社区优先事项。职业发展方面的补充活动 对解决具有挑战性的环境健康问题和试点项目资金感兴趣的科学家将 支持开展研究和发展科学方向。