Funded Projects

Congratulations to our Fall 2020 CACHET Pilot Grant Awardee:

• Maria Argos (UIC) with Habib Ahsan (UofC) and Muhammad Kibriya (UofC) Assessment of multipollutant exposures in Bangladeshi youth using silicone wristbands. Inter-Institutional Award

Congratulations to our Spring 2020 CACHET Pilot Grant Awardees:

• Vanessa Coffman (UIC): A population-based study utilizing individual-level Danish register data to assess the association between livestock density and birthweight, 1997-2017.  Young Investigator Award
• Saira Tasmin (UofC) with Habibul Ahsan (UofC): Air Pollution, Gut Microbiome, and Cardiometabolic Disorders.  Young Investigator Award
• Serap Erdal (UIC) with Victoria Persky (UIC), Sola Olopade (UofC), Sally Freels (UIC): Study of an Air Pollution Episode in an EJ Community in Chicago During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Link Between PM Exposures, Implosion of a Smokestack and COVID-19. Inter-Institutional Award
• Dezheng Huo (UofC) with Brisa Aschebrook (UofC) and Muhammad Kibriya (UofC): A preliminary characterization of the environmental impact on breast cancer disparities in Chicago using metabolomics.  Idea Award

Congratulations to our Fall 2019 CACHET Pilot Grant Awardees:

• Dr. Brisa Aschebrook-Kilfoy (UofC):

  The impact of air pollution on biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk in environmental justice communities in Chicago. Young Investigator Award

• Dr. Molly Scannell Bryan (UIC):

  Chronic Kidney Disease Progression: The Role of Environmental Exposures, Neighborhood Context, and Clinical Risk Factors. Young Investigator Award

• Drs. Brandon Pierce and Maria Argos (UofC/UIC):

  Exposure to toxic metals and prostate-specific antigen levels in African American COMPASS. Inter-Institutional Award

Congratulations to our Spring 2019 CACHET Pilot Grant Awardees:

• Dr. Andre Kajdacsy-Balla (UIC): What is an environmentally relevant concentration of cadmium in diets and in vitro?  ICP-MS Award
• Dr. Gokhan Mutlu (UofC): Analysis of metals in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. ICP-MS Award
• Dr. Ian Papautsky (UIC): Validation and analysis of manganese in water and blood samples using ICP-MS at UIC. ICP-MS Award
• Dr. Jayant Pinto (UofC) with Brisa Aschebrook (UofC), Jack Gilbert (UofC), Brenda Giles (UofC): Airborne Exposures and Airway Disease in Inner City Chicago Children. Idea Award
• Dr. Kathryn L. Nagy (UIC): Metals in Air Particulates Collected at UIC since November 2017. ICP-MS Award
• Dr. Loren Saulsberry (UofC) with Brisa Aschebrook (UofC): A Community Environmental Health Assessment in COMPASS. Young Investigator Award
• Dr. Muhammad G. Kibriya (UofC) with Maria Argos (UIC): Molecular Profiling of Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in Arsenic-exposed Population. Idea Award
• Dr. Victoria W. Persky (UIC) with Maria Argos (UIC): Relationships of toenail with soil measurements of metals in SE Chicago. Idea Award

Congratulations to our CACHET Pilot Grant Awardees:

• Dr. Kirsten Almberg (UIC): Characterization of agricultural herbicide exposures in reproductive age women
• Dr. Brisa Aschebrook-Kilfoy (UofC): The impact of air pollution on biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk in environmental justice communities in Chicago
• Dr. Yu-Ying He (UofC): FTO and RNA methylation in arsenic skin tumorigenesis
• Dr. Jyotsna Jagai (UIC): Evaluating the utility of gut and residential environment microbiome as markers of cumulative environmental exposures in breast cancer risk
• Dr. Sola Olopade (UofC): Air pollution exposure and pregnancy outcomes in women in the Chicago Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study
• Dr. Igor Paprotny (UIC): Low-cost Direct Reading MEMS PM2.5 Sensors for Community Deployment
• Dr. Garth Rauscher (UIC): Linking air toxics exposure data to residential histories in a large cohort of women

Congratulations to our Fall 2018 CACHET Pilot Grant Awardees:

• Dr. Wenyang Hu (UIC) with Gail Prins (UIC): Dioxin reprogramming of human prostate stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. Idea Award
• Dr. Robert Sargis (UIC) with Rhonda Kineman (UIC): Stat5b Signaling as Mediator of and Therapeutic Target for Dioxin-Like, PCB-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Idea Award
• Dr. Robert Hamanaka (UofC) with Gokhan Mutlu (UofC) and Jayant Pinto (UofC): The effect of sex on particulate matter-induced transcriptional and metabolomic responses in nasal epithelium.  Young Investigator Award
• Dr. Donald Vander Griend (UIC) with Brandon Pierce (UofC), Gail Prins (UIC): Using genome editing to identify causal SNPs impacting arsenic metabolism efficiency.  Inter- Institutional Award