Superfund Research Program

Superfund Research ProgramAbbreviation| SRP

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Formation| 1986
Type| University-based environmental health research program
Purpose| Research on hazardous substances, human health risk assessment, and remediation

Region served

| United States

Parent organization

| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Budget

| $50.198 million (2008)

The Superfund Research Program (SRP) is a university-based research program that supports the national Superfund program by addressing a wide variety of scientific concerns.[1] It was created within the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in 1986 under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA).

The SRP has a broad mandate including:

1. The development of methods and resources to detect hazardous substances in the environment.
2. The improvement of techniques of assessing the effects of hazardous substances on human health.
3. The development of methods of assessing the risks hazardous substances pose to human health.
4. The development of biological, chemical, and physical methods of decreasing hazardous substances and their toxicity.

The SRP encourages data sharing across different medical disciplines, to help better understand the link between exposures and health.[2] To support grantees with data sharing the SRP has run webinars, and launched a data set library that contains a repository of research conducted by other grantees.[3]

The SRP currently funds multi-project grants at sixteen institutions (Boston University School of Public Health, Brown University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, Northeastern University, Oregon State University, University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, University of California, San Diego, University of Iowa, University of Kentucky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Washington).

They currently fund more than twenty four separate university-based research centers using its annual budget. They also fund individual research projects, training education programs, and small business research projects.[1]

The 2008 budget request amount for the SRP was $50.198 million.

## See also

* TOXMAP
* List of Superfund sites in the United States

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About SRP". 31 July 2024. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/centers/srp/about.
2. ↑ Suk, William A.; Heacock, Michelle L.; Trottier, Brittany A.; Amolegbe, Sara M.; Avakian, Maureen D.; Carlin, Danielle J.; Henry, Heather F.; Lopez, Adeline R. et al. (25 June 2020). "Benefits of basic research from the Superfund Research Program". Reviews on Environmental Health 35 (2): 85–109. doi:10.1515/reveh-2019-0104. ISSN 2191-0308. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2019-0104/pdf. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
3. ↑ Heacock, Michelle L.; Amolegbe, Sara M.; Skalla, Lesley A.; Trottier, Brittany A.; Carlin, Danielle J.; Henry, Heather F.; Lopez, Adeline R.; Duncan, Christopher G. et al. (25 June 2020). "Sharing SRP data to reduce environmentally associated disease and promote transdisciplinary research". Reviews on Environmental Health 35 (2): 111–122. doi:10.1515/reveh-2019-0089. ISSN 2191-0308. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2019-0089/pdf. Retrieved 25 December 2024.

## External links

* National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences:Superfund Research Program
* SRP Center at Oregon State University
* University of Washington Superfund Research Program
* Dartmouth College Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program
* Boston University Superfund Research Program

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