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
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
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
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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
Computational Toxicology and Bioinformatics Centers
- Carolina Center for Computational Toxicology
- New Jersey Research Center for Environmental Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology
- The Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center
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 (CSPACE)
- 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)