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17-3 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award

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RFA 17-3

This award supports creative junior investigators, at Assistant Professor or equivalent level, with outstanding promise who are interested in the health effects of air pollution. RFA 17-3 provides up to 3 years of funding for a project relevant to HEI's research interests, as outlined in the HEI Strategic Plan 2015-2020. All applicants should contact HEI to verify their eligibility before applying.

RFA 17-3 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award provides funding for 1 or 2 studies with a funding cap of $450,000 each. This RFA is now closed.

How to Apply

This RFA is closed.

Contact: 

Annemoon M. van Erp

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avanerp@healtheffects.org
+1-617-488-2346

Ongoing studies funded under this RFA

Formation of reactive oxygen species by organic aerosols and transition metals in epithelial lining fluid

Manabu Shiraiwa
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University of California, Irvine

This New Investigator Award Study investigates the mechanisms of formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by different types of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs), distinguishing between ROS formed by pollutants entering lung lining fluid (chemically) and by macrophages producing ROS as an inflammatory response (biologically). He will measure concentrations of ROS in epithelial lung lining fluid in macrophages exposed to SOA produced in a reaction chamber, with or without transition metals, using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy with a spin trapping technique or a chemiluminescence assay. 

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