Welcome! The vision of the Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (the Center) is to support and grow innovative environmental health research to improve human health by bringing people together to increase knowledge of interactions between environmental exposures and human biology to help reduce risks of exposure on human health.
The Center was first established in 1967 at Oregon State University with funding by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the institutes comprising the National Institutes of Health. Our Environmental Health Science Center was one of the six original NIEHS Core Centers (NIEHS grant #P30 ES000210) currently #P30 ES030287. We contribute to the mission of NIEHS, which is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives.
To address these goals, the Environmental Health Sciences Center has investigators from many different departments and programs at Oregon State University. EHSC is an interdisciplinary unit of more than 35 investigators.
Center Structure
The Pilot Projects Program offers grants to support new and innovative research in environmental health. These grants are designed to provide short-term investments to Center members and can be used to collect preliminary research data for a larger research proposal, get priority access the Center’s Core facilities and services, foster new collaborations that will advance environmental health science, community engagement, or research translation, and test new and innovative ideas that advance the mission of the Center and NIEHS.
EHSC research is supported by Facility Cores. The Zebrafish Biomedical Research and Chemical Exposure Cores provide scientists with access to state-of-the-art equipment, services, and expertise in specific research technologies. The EHSC also supports symposia and other programs for training and enrichment in cooperation with the affiliated NIEHS Training Grant and the Career Development Core. The Community Engagement Core and Translational Research Support Core offer resources and support to create collaborative research teams that are community driven and focused on translating investigations into improved health outcomes.