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Research Centers
NCER periodically establishes both STAR and non-STAR (Congressional line item) research centers. STAR research centers are competed to achieve a long-term research goal, since research centers create the following opportunities for scientific advancement:
- provide for multidisciplinary interactions in a wide range of
scientific areas - informing state-of-the-art research programs
for a specific purpose,
- support a coordinated program of research with the ultimate
goal of
facilitating and accelerating translation of basic science knowledge into clinical applications or intervention strategies, - develop fully coordinated programs that incorporate exposure
assessment and health effects research with development and validation
of risk management and health prevention strategies,
- establish a national network that fosters communication, innovation,
and research excellence,
- improve study designs, resulting from intra-Center, multi-disciplinary
integration and cross-disciplinary work,
- ability to pursue "higher-risk" efforts in methods
development, validation, and pilot studies, providing a greater
potential for innovation, and
- longer term continuity for (i.e., for five years) allows long-term planning and research implementation.
NCER manages Hazardous Substance, Children's Environmental Health, and Particulate Matter centers among others.
For more detail on a research center and its specific research projects and results, select a center from the menu on this page.
NCER Research Centers
Airborne Particulate Matter Research Centers - New (2005)
- Harvard Particle Center
- Johns Hopkins Particulate Matter Research Center
- Rochester PM Center Abstracts
- San Joaquin Valley Aerosol Health Effects Research Center (SAHERC)
- Southern California Particle Center
Additional Information Available
EPA's Office of Research and Development has requested SAB advice on the future direction of ORD's Particulate Matter Research Centers Program. Materials are available on the 2008 SAB Advisory Website.Airborne Particulate Matter Research Centers - Original (1998)
- EPA Harvard Center for Ambient Particle Health Effects
- EPA NYU PM Center: Health Risks of PM Components
- Northwest Research Center for Particulate Air Pollution and Health
- Rochester PM Center
- Southern California Particle Center and Supersite
Bioinformatics Research Centers
- New Jersey Research Center for Environmental Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology
- The Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center
Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment
Center for Environmental Health Sciences
Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
- Duke University — Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology
- University of California — Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC—CEIN)
Centers of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research - 2007
- Southern Center on Environmentally Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes
- UC Davis Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Additional Information Available
For expanded detail on the Children's Environmental
Health Research Centers (CEHCs), visit the CEHC
Website.
Centers of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research - 2003
- Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
- Harvard Center for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
- Johns Hopkins Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment
- Mount Sinai Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research.
- USC Center for Children’s Environmental Health
- University of California Berkeley Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research
- University of Washington Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research
Centers of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research - 2001
- University of California at Davis Center for the Study of Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Autism
- University of Cincinnati Center for the Study of Prevalent Neurotoxicants in Children
- University of Illinois FRIENDS Children’s Environmental Health Center
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Center for Childhood Neurotoxicology and Assessment
Centers of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research - Original (1998)
- Columbia University School of Public Health
- Johns Hopkins University Hospital
- Michigan Center for the Environment and Children’s Health
- Mount Sinai Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of Iowa Children's Environmental Airway Disease Center
- University of Southern California
- University of Washington
Environmental Statistics Center
- Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science
- Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE)
- National Research Program on Design-Based/Model-Assisted Survey Methodology for Aquatic Resources
- Time Aquatic Resources Modeling and Analysis Program (STARMAP)
Estuarine and Great Lakes Program (EAGLES)
- Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium
- Atlantic Slope Consortium
- Consortium for Estuarine Ecoindicator Research for the Gulf of Mexico
- Great Lakes Environmental Indicators Project
- Pacific Estuarine Ecosystem Indicator Research (PEEIR) Consortium
Exploratory Environmental Research Centers
- Center for Airborne Organics (MIT)
- Center for Ecological Health Research (Cal Davis)
- Multiscale Experimental Ecosystem Research Center (MEERC)
- National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT)
Hazardous Substance Research Centers - New (2001)
- Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments
- Midwest Hazardous Substance Research Center
- Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center for Remediation of Mine Waste Sites
- South and Southwest HSRC
- Situ Processes for VOC Remediation in Groundwater and Soils
Hazardous Substance Research Centers - Original (1989)
- Great Lakes/Mid Atlantic HSRC
- Great Plains/Rocky Mountain HSRC
- Northeast HSRC
- South and Southwest HSRC
- Western HSRC
Public/Private Partnership Center
Research Consortium on Ozone and Fine Particle Formation in California and in the Northeastern United States
Targeted Research Centers
- Alabama Center For Estuarine Studies (ACES)
- Center for Air Toxic Metals® (CATM®)
- Center for Environmental Science
- Center for Environmental and Energy Research (CEER)
- Center for Science and Policy Applications for Coastal Environments (C–SPACE)
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Environmental Lung Disease Center (National Jewish Medical and Research Center)
- Gulf Coast HSRC (Lamar)
- IPEC University of Tulsa (TU)
- Louisiana Environmental Research Center (McNeese State)
- Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
- National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE)
- National Environmental Respiratory Center (NERC)
- Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems
- Texas Joint Center for Air Quality
- The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc., Environmental Research and Technology Transfer Program
- The Waste Minimization And Management Research Center
- Urban Waste Management and Research Center (University New Orleans)