Sensor Technologies for Environmental Exposure Assessment
The Sensor Technologies for Environmental Exposure Assessment Program was solicited through RFA-ES-06-011. An evaluation of the baseline state of the science in environmental exposure assessment at the outset of the Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative indicated that the currently accepted tools for exposure assessment provided useful but limited information. In general these sensors provided information on only a small number of analytes with limited temporal or spatial information and were sufficiently obtrusive that they posed a challenge for compliance in population-based based studies. In recent years there has been a remarkable growth in the development of new sensor technologies in laboratory settings, which have been capitalized on in the Homeland Security and Defense domains but have not made the transition to Environmental Health. The goal of this program, therefore, is to adapt existing laboratory based sensor technologies to develop a next generation of sensors for personal exposure assessment, enabling near real-time monitoring of several analytes simultaneously in a minimally intrusive integrated device.
Eight Awards were made through this solicitation:
- Steven Chillrud, Columbia University (PDF Document, 2 pages)
- Markus Erbeldinger, ICx Agentase (PDF Docuement. 1 page)
- Ashok Mulchandani, University of California at Riverside (PDF Document, 1 page)
- Charles Rodes, Research Triangle Institute (PDF Document, 1 page)
- Kenneth Shepard, Columbia University (PDF Document, 1 page)
- SangYoung Son, University of Cincinnati (PDF Document 1 Page)
- Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PDF Document, 1 page)
- Nongjian Tao, Arizona State University (PDF Document, 1 page)
For additional information, please contact:
David M. Balshaw, PhD
Program Director
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(919) 541-2448
Balshaw@NIH.GOV
