Columbia University
Center for Environmental Health in Harlem
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/center/col-ctr.htm
This center, under the Columbia University School of Public Health, performs research aimed at the diseases associated with the environment of the underprivileged urban dweller.
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Duke University
Marine Laboratory
http://www.env.duke.edu/marinelab/marine.html
As a unit within the Nicholas School of the Environment, this laboratory performs education and research in the marine sciences, coastal environmental management, and marine biomedicine.
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Harvard University
Kresge Center for Environmental Health
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/kresge/
As part of the Harvard School of Public Health, this center has six research cores in radiobiology and environmental carcinogenesis, biochemical and environmental toxicology, respiratory biology and inhalation toxicology, environmental epidemiology, occupational health, and environmental science and engineering.
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Johns Hopkins University
Environmental Health Sciences Center
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/center/jhp-ctr.htm
This center has research programs in environmental epidemiology and human exposure assessment, molecular dosimetry and biomarkers, mechanisms of toxicity and carcinogenesis, physiologic responses to inhaled pollutants, and neurotoxicology.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Environmental Health Sciences
http://web.mit.edu/cehs/www/
Research programs at this center include molecular biomarkers, endogenous nitrite carcinogenesis in man, Superfund basic research, mutagenic effects of airborne toxicants, environmental genomics and aging, and semiconductor manufacturing and health.
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Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
http://www.mdibl.org/
This nonprofit research facility, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, seeks to promote research and education in the biology of marine organisms, foster understanding and preservation of the environment, and use this understanding to advance human health.
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New York University
Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine
http://charlotte.med.nyu.edu/
The goal of this center is to study environmental factors that may impinge upon human disease and to develop methods for the detection, prevention, and control of environmentally related disease. To that end, the center maintains research programs in human exposure and health effects, epidemiology, environmental and occupational medicine, systemic toxicology, environmental carcinogenesis, and genetic and molecular toxicology.
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Oregon State University
Environmental Health Sciences Center
http://www.ehsc.orst.edu/
This center is interested in determining how and why environmental chemicals and other agents are toxic to humans and other organisms, and uses multiple species, models, and systems to test effects on proteins, nucleic acids, and gene expression.
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Oregon State University
Marine/Freshwater Biomedical Science Center
http://www.orst.edu/dept/mfbcenter/
This center conducts research and education using aquatic research models to investigate environmentally related human disease states such as cancer and immune deficiency.
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Texas A & M University
Center for Environmental and Rural Health
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/center/tam-ctr.htm
Through its Health Education and Rural Outreach (HERO) program, this newly developed center seeks to help lay environmental educators, school health professionals, and other health professionals understand environmental health issues.
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University of Arizona
Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center
http://www.Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU/centers/tox_center/swehsc/index.html
As part of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, this center of toxicology is charged with expanding and strengthening education, research, and service in toxicology and environmental health sciences.
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University of California at Berkeley
Center for Environmental Health Sciences
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/mutagen/
This center uses a multidisciplinary approach to focus on the problems of DNA damage, its consequences for environment and health, and understanding the causes, mechanisms, and prevention of this damage.
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University of California at Davis
Center for Environmental Health Sciences
http://etx.ucdavis.edu/cehs/
This center is dedicated to integrating, coordinating and fostering interdisciplinary research related to the effects of the environment on human health, using an interdisciplinary approach to study human epidemiology, target organ toxicity, biomarkers of exposure, and effects and mechanisms of toxics.
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University of Cincinnati
Center for Environmental Genetics
http://www.med.uc.edu/htdocs/medicine/ceg/ceg.html
Center scientists examine the effect of genetic diversity on the response of individuals and populations to toxic environmental agents such as sunlight, carcinogens, and air pollutants.
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University of Iowa
Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
http://www.uiowa.edu/~vpr/research/organize/envhsrc.htm
This center focuses on agricultural and rural environmental exposures and health effects, and serves as a technical resource at the state, regional, national, and international levels in the area of agricultural and rural environmental health.
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Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Center for Excellence
http://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/
The four research cores at this facility study biotransformation and toxicity of environmental chemicals, signal transduction and intracellular communication, neural and developmental toxicology, and exposure assessment and epidemiology.
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University of Miami
Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Science Center
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/niehs/
This center focuses on a wide variety of subjects and research models related to potent marine metabolites present in seafood, including a complete description of a piscine model for human neurofibromatosis and a reptilian model for hypoxia and anoxia with relevance to human stroke.
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University of Rochester
Environmental Health Sciences Center
http://www.envmed.rochester.edu/wwwrlp/niehsc/ur/
Research at this center concentrates on the topics of neurobehavioral toxicology, pulmonary toxicology, and cellular and molecular toxicology.
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University of Southern California
Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center
http://www.usc.edu/hsc/medicine/preventive_med/scehsc/
This center primarily focuses on using epidemiologic methods to study effects of the environment on human health, especially that of the ethnically diverse populations of California and the Pacific Rim.
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University of Texas at Galveston
Sealy Center for Molecular Science
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/center/utg-ctr.htm
The center seeks to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms and responses associated with DNA damage, repair, and mutagenesis, and how these responses are regulated through signal transduction and transcriptional control.
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University of Texas at Smithville
Center for Research on Environmental Disease
http://sprd1.mda.uth.tmc.edu/cred/default.html
This center studies the mechanisms by which environmental factors cause human disease, and works to develop methods for the detection, prevention, and control of environment-related disease. In addition, the center seeks to detect human exposure and monitor disease prevention strategies.
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University of Washington
Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health
http://weber.u.washington.edu/d42/ceeh/
This center strives to understand and communicate to the public how genetic factors influence human susceptibility to environmental health risks.
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University of Wisconsin at Madison
Environmental Toxicology Center
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/center/mad-ctr.htm
This newly developed center has facility cores in microanatomy, transgenic animals, advanced microscopy, biomarkers, and molecular biology.
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University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/center/uwm-ctr.htm
This center conducts research using aquatic organisms to address important problems in human environmental health in the areas of endocrine disruption and neurobehavioral toxicology.
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Vanderbilt University
Center in Molecular Toxicology
http://www.toxicology.mc.vanderbilt.edu/
This center seeks to understand the chemical and biological aspects of toxicological phenomena, answer questions related to toxicity at the biochemical level, and apply such chemical and biochemical knowledge to problems involving human health.
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Wayne State University
http://www.wayne.edu/ehsctr/
Environmental Health Sciences Center for Molecular and Cellular Toxicology with Human Applications
This center examines the effects of urban environmental factors on human health, and uses community outreach to inform the public on how they can protect themselves.
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