MSU Superfund Projects and Cores:

Project 1: Characterization of the Pathways Linking Ah Receptor Activation with Altered B Cell Differentiation Using an Integrated Experimental and Computational Modeling Approach

Project 2: Dissecting the Signaling Network for Ah Receptor-mediated Bcell Toxicity

Project 3: Non-Additive Ah Receptor Ligand Interactions

Project 4: Influence of Ah Receptor Ligands on Inflammatory Responses: Consequences for Tissue Injury and Gene Expression

Project 5: A Proteomic Analysis of the AHR signaling Network

Project 6: Molecular Insight into Polyaromatic Toxicant Degradation by Microbial Communities

Project 7: Geochemical Controls on the Adsorption, Bioavailability, and Long-term Environmental Fate of Dioxins, PCBs, and PAHs

Core A: Administration

Core B: Research Translation

Core C: Computational Modeling of Mammalian Biomolecular Response

Core D: Biomedical Informatics

Core E: Environmental Molecular Analysis

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Superfund Core A: Administration

The Administrative Core provides support for the research, training and information and technology transfer in this Program Project. Core leadership is provided by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Norbert Kaminski. 

The Core is located within the offices of the Center for Integrative Toxicology at Michigan State University, a unit coordinating campus-wide multidisciplinary activities in environmental and molecular toxicology. The Principal Investigator is Director of the Center. Staff for the Administrative Core includes a part-time accountant/administrator and a part-time secretary. 

The P.I. will provide administrative and scientific leadership of the research program with input from an Internal and an External Advisory Committee. The Core will organize and support regularly scheduled meetings and video-conferencing for exchange of research and administrative information among the entire research group. It will prepare progress reports and other information that is required by the NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP) administration. 

Fiscal responsibilities attributed to the Core will include management and dissemination of funds to research projects and cores, monitoring of expenditures, and communication and reporting as required by NIEHS fiscal administration personnel. The Core will take leadership in and organize activities involving communication with government officials and personnel regarding the research program. Communications required for technology transfer will be enhanced through Core activities, including updating of website information concerning research progress. A Pilot Project Program providing non-NIH funds for initiation of new research projects will be administered by the Core. 

Norbert E. Kaminski, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Core Leader
Michigan State University