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Completed Research Projects
Title: Boston Environmental Hazards Research Center
Synopsis: This series of studies were conducted by the Boston Environmental Hazards Research Center, which is located at the Boston VA Medical Center. The studies focused on environmental health, neuroscience, and neurocognitive methodologies related to the health of Gulf War veterans.
Overall Summary: The Boston Environmental Hazards Center (BEHC) is a science-based unit located at Boston VAMC. Center staff are carrying out three pilot research projects and training junior scientists in the field of behavioral neurotoxicity. Investigators focus on 1) the application of environmental health, neuroscience and neurocognitive methodologies to issues in the field of behavioral toxicology, and 2) the training of environmental health, neuropsychology and neuroscience students in this scientific field. This group of scientists has collaborated in research on behavioral toxicology, environmental health and behavioral neuroscience for many years under the leadership of the Center Director, Dr. Roberta White and Dr. David M. Ozonoff (Chair of Environmental Health at BUSPH). Currently, the center is directed by Roberta White, PhD, with Susan P. Proctor, DSc as Assistant Director. The Center structure consists of a director, administrative core, research team, advisory committee, and trainees. Key Center personnel have worked together at BEHC for the past several years and have become a well-coordinated team. They are advised by an external advisory committee of veterans, community members and scientists who have also worked with BEHC in the past. The activities of the two major components of the Center-pilot research and training-are designed to complement and enrich each other. The qualified investigators (4), primary investigators (8), trainees (2) and scientific consultants(3) collaborate on three pilot projects. These projects were designed to utilize knowledge from basic science, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and medicine for studies that are both innovative and translational. They were designed to have direct implications for the clinical care and monitoring of veterans and military personnel who are exposed to environmental hazards.
Overall Project Objective: See project summary.
Results to Date: See publications.
Project: VA-64
Agency: Department Of Veterans Affairs
Location: VAMC Boston
P.I. Name: Roberta F White
Status: Complete
Study Start Date: April 01, 2000
Estimated Completion Date: December 31, 2006
Specific Aims: Not available.
Methodology: Not available.
Publications:
Devine S , Kirkley S , Palumbo C L, White R F. Environ Health Perspect.2002;110:1051-5.
Proctor S P, Heaton K , Herren T , White R F. Neurotoxicology.2006;Epub ahead of print
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