Center pilot grants are a major driver of career development, providing postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty with mentorship and access to the Center’s core facilities. They also promote cross-collaboration across departments to encourage the application of environmental health concepts and methodology to other disciplines. In addition, the pilot project program enables Center Members to rapidly respond to community needs.
Over the past 10 years:
- 94 applicants received pilot funding awards of $20,000 to $70,000 each for a total of $2,750,107
- 72 of 94 pilots were awarded to postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty
- 15 Community-Based Participatory Research pilot grants were awarded
- 24 pilots resulted in successful NIH grant applications (7 K99, 1 R03, 2 R21, 6 R00, 6 R01, 1 R35 and 1 UG3) for a total return on investment of $49,061,711
2023 PILOT PROJECT APPLICATION- APPLY NOW
| Grant Year | Awarded Amount | Project Title | PI Name | Multi-PI | Co-Investigators | Area of Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (2) | $20,000 | Lead, Cognition, and Gut Microbiome Interactions with Nutrition (LoGIN) | Shoshannah Eggers | Vishal Midya | Elza Rechtman, Chris Gennings | Biostatistics Endocrine Disruptors Lead Microbiome |
| 2022 (2) | $24,965 | Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Functional Ovarian Reserve in Midlife | Lauren Petrick | Elena Colicino | PFAS — Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Reproductive Health Women’s Health | |
| 2022 (2) | $25,000 | Inhibitory Control Mediates the Association between Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Child Body Mass Index | Jamil Lane | Shelley Liu | Robert Wright, Dania Valvi, Syam S Andra | Children’s Health Mixtures/co-exposures Obesity PFAS — Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances |
| 2022 (2) | $25,000 | Neighborhood Scale Evaluation of Vehicle Emission Reduction Policies in Advocating Environmental Justice and Equality in NYC | Xueying Zhang | Rosalind Wright, Itai Kloog, Matthew Woody | Air Pollution Climate Change | |
| 2022 (2) | $25,000 | Lead (Pb), tooth mineral density and caries experience among adolescents. | Aderonke Akinkugbe | Christine Austine, Chris Gennings, Piyush Kumar, Nilsson Holguin, Martha Maria Tellez Rojo | Children’s Health Lead | |
| 2022 (2) | $25,000 | Impact of PFAS in cord blood on offspring intestinal inflammation and dysbiosis | Manasi Agrawal | Dania Valvi, Vishal Midya, Lauren Petrick, Inga Peter, Jean-Frederic Colombel | PFAS — Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | |
| 2022 (2) | $25,000 | Lead Exposure in Telecommunication Workers | Andrew Todd | Rabeea Khan | John Meyer | Lead |
| 2022 (2) | $41,347 | Use of the realtime and historical “floodnet” data to determine the impact of flooding on the surge of acute respiratory illnesses in the specific densely populated flood prone New York City communities in 1 year | Ismail Nabeel | Brett Branco | Ilias Kavouras | Climate Change Lung Diseases Weather Extremes |
| 2022 (2) | $50,000 | Environmental Disparities and the Risk of West Nile Virus in New York City | Nicholas DeFelice | Nicholas Steiner | Mathew J. Ward | Climate Change |
| 2022 (2) | $50,000 | The neuroimmune outcomes of prenatal exposures to air pollution and stress | Pinar Ayata | Alison G. Lee | Elena Colicino, Mathilda Chiu, Sheela Maru, Uday Patil, Steven N. Chillrud | Air Pollution Biomarkers Children’s Health Climate Change Gene-Environment Interaction Mixtures/co-exposures |
| 2022 (1) | $20,000 | The association between PM2.5 composition and sources and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease mortality among older adults. | Maayan Yitshak-sade | Elena Colicino, Allan Just, Michael Hadley, Alex Federman, Liuhua Shi, Joel Schwartz, Heresh Amini | Air Pollution | |
| 2022 (1) | $20,000 | The association between the built and social environment and phenotypic age acceleration | Pablo Knobel | Maayan Yitshak-sade | Elena Colicino, Itai Klog, Alex Federman, Charles Mobbs, Rachel Litke | Biomarkers Exposome Mixtures/co-exposures |
| 2022 (1) | $20,000 | Metal exposures and bone health in women during reproductive aging | Elena Colicino | Lauren Petrick | Megan Niedzwiecki, Megan Horton, Robert O Wright, Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Marcela Tamayo-Ortiz | Mixtures/co-exposures Reproductive Health Women’s Health |
| 2022 (1) | $20,000 | Metabolomic features in dried blood spots of offspring of women with and without inflammatory bowel disease | Manasi Agrawal | Inga Peter, Lauren Petrick, Dinesh Kumar Barupal ,Francesca Petralia, Jean-Frederic Colombel | “Biomarkers Exposome Microbiome Mixtures/co-exposures Toxicology” | |
| 2022 (1) | $20,000 | Anti-Racism and Environmental Justice Scholars Pilot Program | Malika Garg | Maida Galvez | Sarah Evans, Terry Thompson | Outreach/Community Engagement |
| 2022 (1) | $65,000 | Beneficial effects of tailored light intervention (TLI) on sleep and cognition in World Trade Center Responders, Recovery Workers, and Volunteers (WTC RRWV) cohort | Ola Alsalman | Rafael E de la Hoz, Mariana G Figueiro | Occupational Health | |
| 2022 (1) | $65,000 | Risk and protective factors and MRI phenotypes of frailty associated with WTC exposure | Megan Horton | Fred Ko, Katherine Ornstein, William Hung, Elena Colicino, Ghalib Bello | Exposome | |
| 2021 (2) | $25,000 | Association between Air Pollution, Stress, and Sleep Efficiency in 6 -7-year-old Children living in East Harlem. | Terry Thompson | Maida Galvez | Robert O. Wright, Sarah Evans, Leon Hsu, Ray Lopez, Luz Guel | Air Pollution |
| 2021 (2) | $25,000 | The Impact of Prenatal Pesticide Exposure on Child Respiratory Outcomes in Mexico City | Cecilia Alcala | Maria Jose Rosa | Syam Andra, Shelley Liu, Robert Wright | Asthma Children’s Health Mixtures/co-exposures Pesticides |
| 2021 (2) | $25,000 | School Ventilation and SARS-CoV-2 Test Positivity: A Community-Based Study | Nicholas DeFelice | Maida Galvez | Rachel Vreeman Alison Lee, Chris Gennings Nicole Bouvier Laura McGuinn Efrain Guerrero | Children’s Health Outreach/Community Engagement |
| 2021 (2) | $25,000 | Air Pollution, Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy (MH), and Vaccine Efficacy in Children | Mike He | Maayan Yitshak-Sade; Elena Colicino | Itai Kloog, Allan Just, Corina Lesseur, Robert Wright | Air Pollution Children’s Health Gene-Environment Interaction |
| 2021 (2) | $25,000 | Development of a novel retrospective biomarker of fluoride exposure using spatial mapping of teeth by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) | Mauro Martinez | Christine Austin | Manish Arora | Biomarkers Exposome Toxicology |