This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites grant applications
for Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHS CC). As intellectual
hubs for environmental health science research, the EHS CC is expected
to be the thought leaders for the field and advance the goals of the
NIEHS Strategic Plan (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/strategicplan/).
The Core Centers provide critical research infrastructure, shared
facilities, services and/or resources, to groups of investigators
conducting environmental health sciences research. An EHS CC enables
researchers to conduct their independently-funded individual and/or
collaborative research projects more efficiently and/or more
effectively. The overall goal of an EHS CC is to identify and capitalize
on emerging issues that advance understanding of the relationships
among environmental exposures, human biology, and disease. The EHS CC
supports community engagement and translational research as key
approaches to improving public health.