Center for Rural and Environmental Health

农村与环境健康中心

• 批准号: 6724926
• 负责人: PHILIP E MIRKES
• 金额: $ 144.95万
• 依托单位: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-04-05 至 2007-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6724926
• 关键词: biomedical facility; environmental health; rural area

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.

德克萨斯A＆M大学的环境与农村健康中心（CERH）的创建是为了支持环境健康科学的最先进研究，并将这些知识转化为德克萨斯州及其他地区的农村社区可以轻松采用的概念和原则。 CERH提供了行政基础设施和技术支持，以促进从分子到社会因素的从基因到有机体的基本机制的多学科研究。中心研究人员的研究活动聚集在四个主要领域：生物统计学和社区健康，化学生物学，营养以及生殖和发育生物学。这些研究核心中的每一个都由代表整个大学多个部门和计划的高级和初级调查员组成。六个设施核心增强了这些研究者的资助研究，这些设施核心提供了资源，以协助涉及使用分析，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个与该中心研究重点有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，可以将CERH调查人员的重要研究结果传播到农村社区，尤其是在下里奥格兰德河谷。