Environmental Agents as Modulators of
Disease Processes

One of the Centers of Excellence sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, this Center was established in 1975. Our mission is to improve public health by defining the contribution and underlying mechanisms of environmental agents in health dysfunction and disease outcomes.

This goal is achieved by a combination of basic science and translational research, and community outreach and education. Through these efforts, the Center strives to provide a sound scientific basis for evaluating the health risks posed by chemical exposures to human populations, evaluating the impact of these exposures on the progress or severity of human diseases, preventing these exposures or the adverse health outcomes arising from them, and/or providing a course for therapeutic intervention