Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research

The OSU T32 Training  Program supports  6 pre-doctoral trainees and 3 post-doctoral trainees each year under the auspices of an NIEHS Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Institutional  Research Training Grant (T32). Our training program has a long track record of over  50ys success training doctoral students and post-doctoral scientists in the Environmental Health Sciences.

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Opportunities

Dr. Caren Weinhouse at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is seeiking a full-time postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Health Sciences, Molecular Genetics, or a related field. The postdoc will work as part of a team on an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) R01 award funded through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The goal of this project is to test a mechanism for initiation and promotion of liver cancer in mice by the endocrine disrupting compound bisphenol A (BPA).

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For more information, contact the T32 Directors here, or Dr. Weinhouse by clicking here.

Objectives

The objective for our Integrated Regional Training Program in Environmental Health Sciences continues to be to recruit and train scientists in the Environmental Health Sciences (EHS). Primary goals are: 

1. Recruit a diverse cohort of trainees.
2. Individualize transdisciplinary, experiential learning employing Individual Development Plans (IDP) for each trainee to provide structured scientific, professional and career development in the environmental health sciences.
3. Train the next generation of scientists to be leaders in environmental health sciences (EHS). 

Highlights

• Short externships to further promote interdisciplinary training and professional development in real-world potential employment environments.
• Pilot grants for trainees unique collaborative training environment provided by OSU,OHSU and PNNL supplemented by new regional training partners in the academic, regulatory, and private sector. 
• Training topics in EHS include: molecular toxicology, environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, systems toxicology, hazard identification, exposure biology, epidemiology, developmental toxicology, nanotoxicology, computational and predictive toxicology, microbiome/environment interactions, neuro/behavioral toxicology, inter-individual susceptibility, metal toxicology, metabolism, diet-environment interactions and translational data sciences. 
• Our former trainees continue to make major contributions in the academic, public, and federal sectors demonstrating the effectiveness of our training program.

Services We Offer - Funding Opportunities

• Trainee Initiated Collaboration Grant Request. The intent of TrIC grants is to support innovative collaborations between T32 trainees and other research groups (on or off-campus).
• Externship Application. The T32 Training Core is pleased to support externship opportunities for T32 trainees that will provide enhanced experiential learning activities that benefit the trainee’s career goals.

Resources

• Trainee NIH Reporting and Citing the Center guidelines PDF. This PDF provides links to the required reporting forms as well as has suggestions for their use. It also includes a section on citing the center when you're writing publications, presentations and posters.
• NIH CareerTrac Portal: NIH uses CareerTrac to track trainee accomplishments across multiple grants. For the T32 grant, trainees can enter their accomplisments individually, with their ERA Commons login.