About the EHSRC

• Director's Welcome
• Strategic Vision
• EHSRC History

Center Members

• Leadership
• Membership Information
• List of EHSRC Members
• External Advisory Committee

Pilot Grant Program

• Overview
• Guideline for Application
• Funded Grants

Research Cores

• Environmental Lung Disease
• Inflammation & Innate Immunity
• Nanotoxicology
• Oxidative Stress & Metabolism

Core Facilities

• Environmental Modeling & Exposure Assessment Facility
• Integrative Health Sciences Facility 
• Pulmonary Toxicology Facility

Career Development Program

• Overview
• Supported Associate Members
• Career Development Resources

Community Outreach and Engagement

Center Publications

Seminars

The EHSRC is funded by NIH P30 ES005605

Inflamation and Innate Immunity Research Core

Director: Martha Monick, Ph.D.
Internal Medicine

Co-Leader: Paul B. McCray, Jr., M.D.
Internal Medicine

The primary goal of the Inflammation and Innate Immunity Research Core (IIIRC) is to serve as the intellectual home for EHSRC members whose research is focused on mechanisms of immune responses and to link these investigators with the rest of the EHSRC. Although the expertise of many is centered on airway inflammation, others focus on innate mechanisms relevant to systemic immune responses. Some of these studies are directly linked with environmental exposures (e.g. transduction of the effects of agricultural bioaerosols and endotoxin inhalation; environmental risk factors for sarcoidosis), whereas others relate to modulation of innate immune responses (e.g. β­defensins and other innate immune response elements) or host susceptibility to environmentally encountered agents (e.g. biofilm modulation of responses to inhaled bacteria).

Environmental Health Sciences Research Center - S323 CPHB - Iowa City, IA 52242-5000 - (319) 335-4225

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