Facility Core #5: Integrated Environmental Health Sciences
The Integrated Environmental Health Sciences Core (IEHSC) serves the CEEH as a focal point for interdisciplinary research, emphasizing clinical, translational, and population-based studies. The IEHSC allows UW environmental health sciences research to move as smoothly as possible not only from “bench-to-bedside” but also from population-based observations to bench to clinical research and onward to public health policy and practice. The primary objective of the IEHSC is to facilitate translational research and foster the integration of basic sciences research at the University of Washington with population-based and clinical research in the environmental health sciences.
Closely integrated with the UW’s Institute for Translational Health Sciences, the IEHSC Core offers the following types of services:
- Consultation and direct assistance with design and execution of clinical and population-based studies, including IRB issues, subject recruitment/screening and retention, laboratory assay coordination and organization, and application of toxicokinetic approaches.
- A dedicated core facility space, adjacent to other CEEH core facilities, with staff and capabilities for clinical testing, physiological testing, and collection and storage of human samples.
- Two way facilitation of interaction between basic scientists and population-based scientists to support innovative approaches that cross disciplines.
- Access to controlled-exposure facilities (Northlake controlled exposure laboratory and Harborview environmental challenge chamber) for specialized inhalation exposures.
- Education of clinical and translational researchers regarding CEEH core facilities, membership in CEEH, and facilitation of access to CEEH services.
- Assistance with developing repositories of samples from well-characterized populations with specific environmental exposures, for future research.
Director: Joel Kauffman, M.D., M.P.H.
joelk@u.washington.edu
(206) 616-3501
Co-Director: Christopher Goss, M.D.
cgosseen@u.washington.edu
(206) 246-8314