The Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) at MIT has awarded two basic science and three translational pilot projects with a start date of July 1, 2014 from the May pilot project call released this year.
The Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) at MIT has awarded two basic science and three translational pilot projects with a start date of July 1, 2014 from the May pilot project call released this year.
Basic science pilot projects:
- Investigating Uncertainties in Satellite – Derived Estimates of Premature Mortality Associated with Particulate Matter Colette Heald
- Understanding and Ameliorating Arsenic – Induced Protein Misfolding Matthew Shoulders
Translational pilot projects:
- Sulfur DNA modifications in gut microbes confer resistance to oxidative stress, Peter Dedon, James Fox, and Eric Alm
- The role of arsenic in adult brain pathology. Translational studies in the mouse. Steve Tannenbaum
- Can microbiome therapy cure IBD in sick dogs? Eric Alm and Susan Erdman