2026

Pilots

Project Title: Developing Exposure Metrics for Microplastics and Nanoplastics.

Principal Investigators: Beizhan Yan, PhD, Lamont Associate Research Professor - Darby Jack, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. 
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $25,000

Project Title: Environmental Programming of Dopaminergic Mechanisms Underlying Depression.

Principal Investigators: Christine Austin, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatric Behavior Neuroscience (in Pediatrics) - Paul Curtin, PhD, Associate Professor of Computational Data Science (in Pediatrics) - David Pagliaccio, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry).
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $25,000

Project Title: Evaluating the Health and Health Care Utilization Impacts of NYC’s Heavy Heating Oil Phaseout using Linked Administrative Data.

Principal Investigators: Kacie Dragan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health and Policy Management.
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $13,500

Project Title: Understanding Attitudes and Practices about Braiding Hair in Northern Manhattan communities.

Principal Investigators: Ami Zota, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences - Lariah Edwards, PhD, Associate Research Scientist (in Environmental Health Sciences) - Marissa Chan, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (in Environmental Health Sciences). 
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $10,000

Project Title: Mapping Pedestrian Microplastic Exposure in Urban Soils.

Principal Investigators: Alex de Sherbinin, PhD, Director and a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Integrated Earth System Information - Antoinette Wannebo, MEM, Staff Associate at the Center for Integrated Earth System Information.
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $20,000

Project Title: Use of Traditional Home Remedies and Associated Health
Risks in Northern Manhattan: Community Awareness and Provider Education.

Principal Investigators: Ana I Esteban-González, MD, Assistant Professor of Community Health (in the Center for Family and Community in Medicine).
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $25,000

Project Title: AI-Based Structural MRI Phenotyping of Prenatal Neurotoxic Exposure.

Principal Investigators: Frank Provenzano, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) - Virginia Rauh, PhD, Professor of Population and Family Health. 
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $25,000

Project Title: Unraveling the Chronic Environmental Lithium and Uranium Co-Exposure Puzzle: Starting to Examine Brain Benefits from Neurotoxic Risks, Potential Isotopic Biomarkers and Relevance to Alzheimer’s Disease.

Principal Investigators: Anirban Basu, PhD, Research Scientist (in Environmental Health Sciences) - Diane Re, PhD, Associate Research Professor of Environmental Health Sciences - Kathrin Schilling, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. 
Year: 2026
Award Amount: $35,000