Hazardous Substances Research and Training Program – Research Centers

The NIEHS Hazardous Substance Basic Research and Training Program utilizes the Hazardous Substances Basic Research Grants Program (NIEHS) to support basic research and training directed towards understanding and attenuating the public health effects resulting from exposure to hazardous substances. Areas of research must be within scope of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 and may include: 1) advanced techniques for detection, assessment and evaluation of the effects on human health of hazardous substances; 2) methods to assess risks to human health presented by hazardous substances; 3) methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment and 4) basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances. This program utilizes the P42 mechanism for broad-based, multi-disciplinary research Centers which integrate biomedical research projects with environmental science/engineering disciplines (such as engineering, hydrogeology, ecology and epidemiology). The grant can provide support for shared resources used by the Center (e.g., research support, administrative, data sharing, training opportunities).

Each applicant for research projects must present a research plan and furnish evidence that scientific competence, facilities, equipment, and supplies are appropriate to carry out the plan. The cost principles for awards under this program are set forth in HHS regulations at 45 CFR 75, Subpart E and Appendix IX (hospitals) to Part 75. Commercial organizations are subject to the cost principles located at 48 CFR 31.2 Federal Acquisition Regulation. See the NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIH GPS) for further guidance on the applicability of cost principals (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/index.htm).