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Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Isocyanates & Health - past present and future - international multidisciplinary conference, november 1 & 2, 2012, NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland
Superfund 25 Years Anniversary
2012-2017 Strategic Plan: Advancing Science, Improving Health: A Plan for Environmental Health Research
October issue of Environmental Factor
Environmental Health Perspectives- October 2012- Annual Children's Health Issue: photo of two babies
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Events

New Grants

  • Environmental Influences on the Microbiome (R21)(RFA-ES-12-009)  - Application Due Date: January 16, 2013
  • Transgenerational Inheritance in Mammals After Environmental Exposure (R01)(RFA-ES-12-006)  & (R21)(RFA-ES-12-007)  - Application Due Date: December 18, 2012
  • TaRGET I: Chromatin Structure, Genomics, and Transcriptional Responses to the Environment (R01)(RFA-ES-12-008)  - Application Due Date: November 19, 2012
  • Role of Environmental Chemical Exposures in the Development of Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome (R21 & R01)(PA-12-184/5)  - Expiration Date: September 8, 2015

Recently Published Research

  • Infant Origins of Childhood Asthma Associated with Specific Molds [Abstract]  [Synopsis] (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2012/10/dert/index.htm#a4) Reponen T, Lockey J, Bernstein DI, Vesper SJ, Levin L, Khurana Hershey GK, Zheng S, Ryan P, Grinshpun SA, Villareal M, Lemasters G. September 2012
  • The Human TLR Innate Immune Gene Family is Differentially Influenced by DNA Stress and p53 Status in Cancer Cells [Abstract]  [Synopsis] (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2012/10/dir/index.htm#a4) Shatz M, Menendez D, Resnick MA. August 2012