Pilot Projects 2013
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Systematic Lung Examination for Hemosiderin as a Marker of Exposure to Environmental Hazards
Principal investigator: Ruth Etzel, MD, PhD, FAAP, Director, Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core; Professor, UWM Zilber School of Public Health.
Pilot Amount: $43,105
Social Inequities and Toxic Air Pollution Exposures in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Co-Investigators: Amy Kalkbrenner, PhD, Assistant Professor, UWM Zilber School of Public Health and Lorraine Malcoe, PhD, Associate Professor, UWM Zilber School of Public Health.
Pilot Amount: $59,990
Proximity to Toxic Sites and Congenital Heart Defects in Disadvantaged Minorities in the City of Milwaukee
Co-Investigators: Pippa Simpson, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics; Chief of Quantitative Health Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Andrew Pelech, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
Pilot Amount: $58,6436
Pilot Projects 2012
Computational Pipeline for Next Generation Sequencing Information from Zebrafish
This $89,000 project is headed by co-investigators Michael Carvan III, PhD, Associate Professor, UWM School of Freshwater Sciences, Warren Heideman, PhD, Professor, MCW Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Richard Peterson, PhD, UW-Madison School of Pharmacy, and Peter Tonellato, PhD, Director, Bioinformatics Unit, Professor, UW-Milwaukee School of Public Health.
Pilot Amount: $89,000
Role of B cell anergy in dioxin-induced autoimmunity
This $20,000 project is headed by principal investigator Stephen Gauld, PhD, Assistant Professor, MCW Dept of Pediatrics (Immunology).
Characterization of lipids, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and PBDE metabolites in Wisconsin mothers and children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome
This $69,677 project is headed by co-investigators Joseph McGraw, PhD, Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Andrew Pelech, MD, Associate Professor, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Dept of Pediatrics (Neonatology).
Developmental immunotoxicity of PAH
This $70,000 project is headed by co-investigators Venkatesh Sampath, MD, MRCPCH, Associate Professor, MCW Dept of Pediatrics (Neonatology), and Ronald Hines, (placeholder).
Genetic analysis of degeneration of the olfactory epithelium
This $20,000 project is headed by Katherine Shim, PhD, Assistant Professor, MCW Dept of Pediatrics (Developmental Biology).
Pilot Projects 2011
Growing healthy soil for healthy communities
Intrauterine and perinatal bisphenol A exposure and neonatal body composition
Nicotine as a modulator of neural crest cell migration and differentiation
Establishing Cabin 1's role in regulating neural crest development to model DiGeorge Syndrome
Linking limnology to cyanotoxins in drinking water using buoy sensors and auto-sampling
Supported through Director's Fund
Pilot Projects 2010
High throughput screening of zebrafish mutants: Identification of genes with environmental health relevance
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Sediment Contact Assay as a Novel Tool for Integrating Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment
Effects of metal oxide nanoparticles on eukaryotic cell structure and metabolism
Effect of early life AHR activation on T-cell tolerance
Mechanisms of Action of SSRI's at environmental and low therapeutic doses
Supported through Director's Fund
Beach microbial communities as sentinels for oil impacts on gulf coast beaches
Supported through Director's Fund
Pilot Projects 2009
Sewage contamination within a municipal drinking water system following heavy rainfall: Pilot and feasibility study
Effects of gold nanoparticles on ovarian steroidogenesis and gene expression
Offspring meconium: The optimal biospecimen matrix for intrauterine toluene and trichloroethylene biomonitoring
TLRs - modulators of environmental lung injury in premature infants
The role of ERR-gamma in mediating bisphenol A neurotoxicity
Development of Zebrafish as a Natural Model System for Studying Scoliosis
Pilot Projects 2008
The influence of developmental methylmercury exposure on cardiac function