University of Louisville Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences

路易斯维尔大学(UofL)综合环境健康科学中心(CIEHS)带来了 一个由多学科调查人员组成的小组共同努力制定一个框架，以了解 环境毒物、生活方式因素、生命阶段、 遗传学和性别及其在人类健康和疾病中的作用。CIEHS处于独特的地位，可以建造 跨学科团队凭借其成员的多学科专业知识来解决这些问题 它的地理位置。路易斯维尔地区社区，由大都会路易斯维尔和 肯塔基州西部的各县，是一个独特的城乡环境的混合体，工业和农业并存 曝光这是美国的一个缩影。该地区深受慢性病发病率的困扰(例如 心血管疾病、糖尿病、癌症等)，所有这些都是由环境原因引起的，在 国家。CIEHS促进以下方面的研究和培训：(1)接触#年存在的工业化学品 城市和农村环境(金属、挥发性有机化合物、多氯联苯、氯乙烯等)，(2)生活方式因素(饮食， 酒精、社会经济应激源、肥胖等)，以及对生命阶段、遗传和 性别在慢性成人疾病发展中的作用。CIEHS被组织成三个多学科的研究 兴趣小组(多器官毒理学、癌症和神经发育毒理学)。综合健康 科学设施核心促进基础科学的翻译，包括对成人和儿童的帮助 临床试验。社区参与核心促进CIEHS之间的多方向沟通 调查人员和社区团体，特别关注农村卫生保健提供者和青年群体。这个 试点项目计划提供资源，支持新的环境健康调查人员、合作 CIEHS成员和知名研究人员之间为环境健康带来新的技能 问题，CIEHS成员环境健康研究的新途径，以及社区参与和 与CIEHS成员合作，由社区领导的研究。职业发展计划提供 对新的初级和中级调查人员提供指导和支持。这些活动得到两个项目的支持 设施核心(生物统计和信息学、综合毒物组学和环境测量)。这个 CIEHS在环境健康研究方面发挥领导作用，促进对 慢性接触环境毒物和生活方式因素在发病机制中的作用，并发展为下一步 一代环境健康研究人员。我们的研究使用的是实验室中的模型系统， 通过调查生态系统对野生动物的污染影响，以及路易斯维尔提供的人类实验室 区域共同体与社区合作伙伴合作。

The University of Louisville’s (UofL) Center for Integrative Environmental Health Science (CIEHS) brings together a multidisciplinary group of investigators working together to develop a framework to understand the complexities of and to integrate the interactions between environmental toxicants, life style factors, life stage, genetics and gender and their roles in human health and disease. The CIEHS is uniquely positioned to build transdisciplinary teams to tackle these problems by virtue of the multidisciplinary expertise of its members and its geographic location. The Louisville Regional Community, composed of Metropolitan Louisville and the counties of western Kentucky, is a unique mix of urban and rural environments with industrial and agricultural exposures that is a microcosm of the United States. The region is plagued by rates of chronic disease (e.g. cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, etc.), all with environmental etiologies, that are among the highest in the nation. The CIEHS facilitates research and training focused on: (1) exposure to industrial chemicals present in the urban and rural KY environments (metals, VOCs, PCBs, vinyl chloride, etc.), (2) lifestyle factors (diet, alcohol, socioeconomic stressors, obesity, etc.), and the modifications to response by life stage, genetics and gender in development of chronic adult diseases. CIEHS is organized into three multi-disciplinary research interest groups (multi-organ toxicology, cancer, and neurodevelopmental toxicology). The Integrated Health Science Facility Core promotes translation of basic science including assistance with both adult and pediatric clinical trials. The Community Engagement Core promotes multi-directional communication between CIEHS investigators and community groups with special focus on rural health care providers and youth groups. The Pilot Project Program provides resources supporting new environmental health investigators, collaborations between CIEHS members and established investigators bringing new skill sets to environmental health problems, new avenues of environmental health research by CIEHS members, and community-engaged and community-led research in collaboration with CIEHS members. A Career Development Program provides mentorship and support to new junior, as well as mid-level, investigators. These activities are supported by two facility cores (biostatistics and informatics, and integrated toxicomics and environmental measurements). The CIEHS provides leadership in environmental health research, promotes investigation of the interactions of chronic exposure to environmental toxicants and lifestyle factors in pathogenesis, and develops the next generation of environmental health researchers. Our studies utilize model systems in the laboratory, the larger ecosystem by investigation of pollution effects on wildlife, and the human laboratory provided by the Louisville Regional Community in collaboration with community partners.