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    SRP Annual Grant Recipient Meeting

    The 2025 SRP Annual Grant Recipient Meeting will be held as a virtual event. Please visit the event website for more information.

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    NIH Grants & Funding: Implementation of New Initiatives and Policies

    NIH has released an Implementation of New Initiatives and Policies webpage where you can learn more about the status of changes impacting the grants process and plans for implementing new initiatives and policies.

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    SRP Notice of Intent to Publish (NOITP)

    The SRP has recently released a Notice of Intent To Publish (NOITP) about the anticipated release of the P42 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).  Please visit the SRP Funding Opportunities website for more information.

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    Unmasking NDMA: Cancer clues and repair insights

    SRP trainee Amanda Armijo, winner of the 2022 Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award, delivered an award lecture about her research on the genetic effects of exposure to carcinogenic n-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, through drinking water.

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    Trainee Spotlight: Linking PFAS Exposure to Liver Toxicity

    University of Rhode Island SRP Center trainee Juliana Agudelo Areiza talks about her current research on how PFAS accumulate in the liver and her K.C. Donnelly Externship at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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    Research Brief 365: Mechanism Linking Preconception Arsenic Exposure and Diabetes in Offspring Revealed

    Exposure to inorganic arsenic before conception can trigger changes in gene activity that are passed down to offspring and increase their risk of developing diabetes, according to a study in mice funded by an NIEHS individual research grant and by the NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP). These changes, known as epigenetic changes, alter how genes work without changing the genes themselves.

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    Superfund Research Program Science Digest

    Check out the December 2024 issue of the SRP Science Digest, which showcases SRP research providing practical, scientific solutions to protect health, the environment, and communities.

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    Where We Work

    If you are interested in learning more about where SRP grant recipients are working, check out the SRP map to see the locations of SRP grant recipients, as well as hazardous waste sites where they conduct research or outreach.

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    SRP Search Tools

    SRP has five search tools to help you learn more about the projects and researchers funded by the Program. The new SRP Faceted Search tool allows you to apply one or more filters to browse information about SRP projects. Filters include chemicals studied, health outcomes, environmental media, and remediation approaches.

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    Hot off the Press

    Read the latest publications from SRP researchers.

The NIEHS Hazardous Substance Basic Research and Training Program (Superfund Research Program [SRP]) provides practical, scientific solutions to protect health, the environment, and communities. As part of NIEHS, an Institute of the National Institutes of Health, SRP works to learn more about ways to protect the public from exposure to hazardous substances, such as industrial solvents, arsenic, lead, and mercury. These and other toxic substances are found in contaminated water, soil, and air at hazardous waste sites throughout the United States.

SRP funds university-based grants on basic biological, environmental, and engineering processes to find real and practical solutions to exposures to hazardous substances. These activities complement the work of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and other federal and state agencies.

In keeping with the NIEHS mission, SRP's teams of professionals from a variety of disciplines develop, test, and implement unique, solution-oriented approaches to address complex environmental health problems. These teams study environmental contaminants in order to lower environmental cleanup costs, reduce human exposure, and improve human health. SRP's central goal is to understand and break the link between chemical exposure and disease.

For SRP news, research advances, and events check out @NIH_NIEHS on X using the hashtag #NIEHS_SRP. To instantly hear about SRP opportunities, subscribe to our mailing lists by sending your email address and affiliation to [email protected].