EOHSI Centers

NIEHS Center for the Environmental Health Sciences
One of only 21 such centers in the U.S., the NIEHS Center is the driving force underlying much of EOHSI's scientific research. The center strives to solve environmental health problems through collaborative research

NIEHS/EPA Center for Childhood Neurotoxicology and Exposure Assessment
The Center is one of four new centers for children's environmental health and disease prevention funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency. The goal of the Center is to determine the influences of environmental exposure to neurotoxicants on child neurological heatlh and development with special emphasis on autism related disabilities

Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation
This U.S. Department of Energy-funded center was created to develop a credible strategy for providing the information needed to improve risk-based compliance requirements for the clean-up of Superfund sites for which the U.S. DOE is responsible

Ozone Research Center
The Center studies the causes, dynamics and effects of photochemical air pollution (smog), at the fundamental level with special focus on issues and air quality problems affecting the Northeastern United States and in particular the State of New Jersey

EPA Center for Exposure and Risk Modeling
The principal mission of the EPA Center for Exposure and Risk Modeling is the development and application of computational tools for source-to-dose exposure assessments. These tools can be used either on a "standalone" basis or as components of the (M)odeling (EN)vironment for (TO)tal (R)isk (MENTOR) system

UMDNJ-Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence
One of four new centers to develop drugs to counter chemical terrorism funded by the National Institute of Health via Project Bioshield. The goal of the Center is to understand the mechanism of action of vesicants in the skin, eye and lungs and to evaluate antidotes to vesicant poisoning.