Research Activities and Funding:
Summary:
Summary: Professor Sioutas has been the principal or co-principal investigator in over 70 research grants and contracts, exceeding US $26 million (the USC Aerosol lab portion only). The total level of these grants exceeds US $60 million. These grants are described below:
- Synopsis of our work
- USC signature aerosol technologies
- Our work on Sustainability: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wq0cf3w56froi8s4vrqdh/Sustainability-Slide.pptx?rlkey=9knlg6j3ediz65gp5crh0mpdk&dl=0
Current
- Genetic and Epigenetic Programming of Allergic Airway Inflammation
Funding Source: National Institute of Health NIH
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (PI: Talal Chatila, Harvard Medical School)
Project period: 12/01/2017 – 12/01/2024
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,009,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $576,718)
Role: Co-principal investigator (PI: Talal Chatila, Harvard Medica
- Genetic and Epigenetic Programming of Allergic Airway Inflammation
Funding Source: National Institute of Health NIH
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (PI: Talal Chatila, Harvard Medical School)
Project period: 12/01/2023 – 12/01/2028
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,009,000 ((C. Sioutas share at USC; $576,718)
- Urban Air Pollution and Alzheimer’s Disease: Risk, Heterogeneity, and Mechanisms- PO1 Award
Funding Source: National Institute of Health/National Institute of Aging
Role: Co-Principal Investigator and Core Director (PI:Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 10/01/2018 -10/31/2024
Total Amount of Award: $ 12,345,000.00 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $592,061)
- Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis Induced by Ambient Ultrafine Particles
Funding Source: National Institute of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI- Jesus Araujo, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 11/01/2018 – 10/31/2024
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $485,000)
- Interplay Between Macrophages, Lipid Oxidation and the Nrf2/HO-1 Axis in the Cardiometabolic Toxicity Induced by Ultrafine
Particles
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI- Jesus Araujo, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 05/01/2021 – 04/30/2026
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $535,000)
- Ambient ultrafine particles induce intestinal inflammation to promote arterial atherosclerosis
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI- Srinivasa Reddy, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 05/01/2022 – 04/30/2025
Total Amount of Award: $ 1,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $345,000)
- Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Allergic Airway Inflammation
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator Role: (PI: Talal Chatila, Harvard Medical School)
Project period: 01/02/2023 – 01/02/2028
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $645,000)
- Synergistic white matter injury from diesel exhaust particulate and chronic cerebral hypoperfusion exposures: Interaction between the Nogo/NgR1 receptor pathway and extravascular fibrinogen toxicity
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: William Mack, USC Keck School of Medicine)
Project period: 11/1/2022 – 10/31/2026
Total Amount of Award: $ 1,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $375,000)
Previous Funding:
- Development of a Mobile Exposure Facility to Conduct Inhalation Exposures to Ambient Particles
Funding Source: Air Resources Board, State of California
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 09/01/99-12/30/05
Total Amount of Award: $2,500,000 (USC School of Engineering share: $746,950)
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER CENTER (SCAPMC)
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Exposure Core (Center Director: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 09/01/99-09/30/05 (6 yr renewal pending)
Total Amount of Award: $ 10,719,360 (USC School of Engineering: $1,535,231)
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUPERSITE (SCS)
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 03/01/00-05/31/05
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,699,573 (USC School of Engineering Share: $ 572,140)
- Development and Evaluation of a Novel Sampling Method to Determine the Phase Partitioning of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds.
Funding source: Harvard University (subcontract to USC; Primary Agency; U.S. EPA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 10/01/96-1/31/02
Total Amount of Award: $150,000
5. Experimental Characterization of Aerosol Separators for Capture Effectiveness
Funding Source: Johns Hopkins University; Applied Physics Laboratory
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 09/01/98-08/31/00
Total Amount of Award: $78,073
- Controlled Laboratory Evaluation of Acute Cardiopulmonary Responses to Concentrated Particulates
Funding Source: Health Effects Institute
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Gong, H.Jr, University of Southern California, School of Medicine)
Project period: 08/01/98-04/30/01
Total Amount of Award: $ 614,385
- Collection, Chemical and Toxicological Characterization of Ambient Coarse, Fine and Ultrafine Particulate Matter
Funding Source: Ministry of Housing, Planning and the Environment of the Netherlands
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 11/01/98-12/31/99
Total Amount of Award: $ 89,530
- Development and Evaluation of Three Ambient Particle Concentrators for Animal and Human Inhalation Studies
Funding source: Harvard University (subcontract to USC; Primary Agency; Health Effects Institute)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/98-06/30/99
Total Amount of Award: $60,480.00
- Health Effects of Concentrated Ambient Particles from the Central Valley of California
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Kent Pinkerton, University of California, Davis, Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health)
Project period: 06/01/00-5/31/03
Total Amount of Award: $ 593,071 (USC School of Engineering Share: $198,062)
- Acute Cardiopulmonary Responses to Oxidant Gases and Ambient Particulate Pollution in Los Angeles residents
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Henry Gong, Jr., University of Southern California, School of Medicine)
Project period: 06/01/00-5/31/03
Total Amount of Award: $ 623,038
- Development and Evaluation of a Personal Particle Monitor for Size-Dependent Measurement of Mass and Chemical Composition of Individual Exposures to Particulate Matter
Funding Source: Mickey Leland National Air Toxics Research Center
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 11/01/00-10/31/02
Total Amount of Award: $297,973.
- Development and Evaluation of a Coarse Particle Concentrator for Animal Toxicology Studies to Coarse Particulate Matter
Funding Source: Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Netherlands
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/00-6/31/01
Total Amount of Award: $107,485
- Development of a Mobile Inhalation Toxicology Facility to Support Air Pollution Studies in Taiwan”
Funding Source: Environmental Protection Agency of Taiwan
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/00-3/31/01
Total Amount of Award: $ 50,000
- Relationship between ambient PM and heart rate variability and cardiac arrhythmia in elderly populations in the Los Angeles Basin
Funding Source: California Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/00-3/31/01
Total Amount of Award: $ 93,476
- Deployment and Operation of SMPS and Low Temperature TEOM in locations of the USC Children’s Health Study (CHS) and the Los Angeles Supersite
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board and Air Quality Management District
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 12/01/01-11/30/04
Total Amount of Award: $ 247,115
- Effects of Airborne Particles on Allergic Airway Disease
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Jack Harkema, Michigan State University)
Project period: 12/01/01-11/30/04
Total Amount of Award: $ 854,702
- Development of an Ultrafine Particle Concentrator
Funding Source: National Institute of Public Health and the Environment of the Netherlands (RIVM)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: /1//1/02 – 12/31/02
Total Amount of Award: $ 88,274
- Ultrafine Particle Concentrator Facility for Chronic Exposure Studies
Funding Source: New York University (NYU)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 03/01/02-06/01/02
Total Amount of Award: $ 48,174
- Development of a Technology for High Volume Collection of Ultrafine, Accumulation and Coarse PM for In Vitro Toxicology Studies
Funding Source: University of Montana
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 03/01/03-06/01/03
Total Amount of Award: $ 138,174
- Development Of A Coarse Particle Chemical Speciation Sampler Using a Virtual Impactor Particle Concentrator
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 03/01/03-06/01/03 (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CREDA)
Total Amount of Award: $ 163,234
- A Simple Low-cost Beta Attenuation Monitor (BAM) for Continuous Measurement of PM2.5 or Ultrafine Particle Concentrations
Funding source: California Air Resources Board, ICAT Grant 2003
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (with Philip M. Fine, USC)
Project period: 07/01/03 – 06/30/05
Total Amount of Award: $ 287,660
- 22. A Pilot Study to Characterize Five Particles in the Environment of an Auto- Manufacturing Facility
Funding source: UAW/Chrysler National Training Center
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/96 – 06/30/97
Total Amount of Award: $ 24,197
- Development of an Ambient Fine Particle Concentrator for Human Inhalation Exposure Studies.
Funding source: National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection of the Netherlands (RIVM)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 12/01/96-11/30/97
Total Amount of Award: $ 127,115
- Acute Cardiopulmonary Responses to Concentrated Particulates (Supplement)
Funding Source: Health Effects Institute
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 08/01/98-3/31/00
Total Amount of Award: $ 31,829
- An Automated Aerosol Concentration System for the Collection of Suspended Particulate Matter in Aqueous Solutions Suitable for Toxicological Assays
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 09/01/04-8/31/06
Total Amount of Award: $ 214,195
- Homeland Security Center for Risk Based Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events
Funding Source: Department of Homeland Security
Role: Co- Investigator (Principal Investigator; Randolph Hall, USC School of Engineering)
Project period: 04/01/04-03/31/07
Total Amount of Award: $12,000,000 (C. Sioutas share: $ 424,000)
- Development and Evaluation of Aerosol Instrumentation
Funding Source: TSI Incorporated
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 02/1/2005 to 10/31/2005
Total Amount of Award: $ 110,000
- Center for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Prevention and Education
Funding Source: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Kent Pinkerton, University of California, Davis, Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health)
Project period: 09/30/01-08/31/07
Total Amount of Award: $ 593,071 (USC School of Engineering Share: $108,062
- Pediatric Asthma, Particulate Air Pollution and Nitrogen Dioxide
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health.
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (PI; Dr. Ralph J. Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period; 04/01/2002 to 05/31/2008.
Total Amount of Award: $ 1,899,203 (USC School of Engineering share; $220,506)
- Ultrafine PM and Cardio Respiratory Health
Funding Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS-NIH)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 12/01/03-11/30/08
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,817,789 (USC School of Engineering Share: $715,000)
- Determination of Reactive Oxygen Species Activity in PM and Enhanced Exposure Assessment for the NIH, NIEHS Study Entitled: Ultrafine Particulate Matter and Cardiorespiratory Health
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (with Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine
Project period: 09/1/2004 to 10/31/2008
Total Amount of Award: $750,000 (USC SOE share: $ 314,000)
- Atherogenic Effects of Ambient PM in Susceptible Animals
Funding Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS-NIH)
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (with Andre Nel, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 09/1/2004 to 12/31/2008
Total Amount of Award: $1,530,000 (USC SOE share: $ 391,330)
- Toxicological assessment of particulate emissions from the exhaust of old and new model heavy- and light-duty vehicles
Funding Source: METRANS Transportation Center- US DOT.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Katharine Moore, USC)
Project period: 10/01/2008-12/31/2009
Total Amount of Award: $ 100,000
- Cardiovascular Effects of Ambient PM in Susceptible Animals
Funding Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS-NIH)
Role: Co- Investigator (PI; Michael T. Kleinman, UC Irvine School of Medicine)
Project period: 09/1/2004 to 08/31/2008
Total Amount of Award: $ 750,000 (USC SOE share: $ 150,650)
- Design and evaluation of two high-flow rate, very low pressure drop impactors for collection of coarse, fine and ultrafine particles
Funding Source: US EPA
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2008-12/31/2009
Total Amount of Award: $ 94,244
- MEGacity Aerosols Characterization and Toxicity ( MEGATOX)
Funding Source: Ecole des Mines de Douai, Paris, France.
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2009-12/31/2009
Total Amount of Award: $ 126,750
- Fine Scale Particle Number Concentrations Within Communities and in the Vicinity of Sound Walls
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 12/01/2007-06/06/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 467,000
- Physicochemical and toxicological assessment of the semi-volatile and non-volatile fractions of PM from heavy- and light-duty vehicles operating with and without emissions control technologies
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/01/2007-12/31/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 679,000
- Measurement and Toxicological Assessment of Population Exposures to Airborne Particulate Matter (PM) in Subways and Light Rail Trains
Funding Source: METRANS Transportation Center- US DOT.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Katharine Moore, USC)
Project period: 10/01/2009-12/31/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 200,000
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER CENTER (SCAPMC) Renewal
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Director (Center Director: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 01/01/2006-12/31/2012 (6 yr renewal)
Total Amount of Award: $ 7,999,360 (USC School of Engineering: $2,135,231)
- Asthma Allergic Disease Research Center (AADCRC)
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Exposure Core Director (Center Director; Andre Nel, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 11/01/2006-10/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 678,000 (USC School of Engineering share); total amount awarded: $6,136,890.
- Sources, Composition, Variability and Toxicological Characteristics of Coarse (PM10-2.5) Particles in Southern California
Funding Source: US EPA
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/01/2008-12/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 1,120,641
- Center for Genomic and Phenomic Studies in Autism (U24)
Funding Source: NIH
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Dr. Clara Lajonchere, USC Keck School of Medicine)
Project period: 12/31/2007-11/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,435,109 (USC School of Engineering Share: $458,052)
- Cardiopulmonary Health Effects: Toxicity of Semi-volatile and Non volatile Components of Ultrafine PM.
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Michael Kleinman, UC Irvine)
Project period: 02/01/2009- 12/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 520,641 (USC’s share)
- In-Vehicle Air Pollution Exposure Measurement and Modeling for Pregnant Women in the National Children’s Study
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 02/01/2008-12/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 503,890 (USC’s share)
- Source Apportionment of Carbonaceous Aerosols Using Integrated Multi-Variant and Source Tracer Techniques and a Unique Molecular Marker Data Set
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. James Schauer, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Project period: 02/01/2008-12/31/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 163,670 (USC’s share)
- “Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System ( VACES ) for Inhalation Exposure Studies”
Funding Source: University of Texas
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2012- 02/01/2013
Total Amount of Award: $ 85,000
- “Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System ( VACES ) for Inhalation Exposure Studies”
Funding Source: Max Planck Institute
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/201o- 02/01/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 75,000
- Health effects of PM particles emitted from heavy-duty vehicles-A comparison between different fuel formulations
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District-AQMD
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. George Karavalakis, UC Riverside))
Project period: 04/01/2012- 09/01/2013
Total Amount of Award: $ 55,000 (C. Sioutas share only)
- Sources, Composition, Variability and Toxicological Characteristics of Ultrafine Particles in Southern California
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)
Role: Principal Investigator Project period: 01/01/2011-12/01/2015
Total Amount of Award: $ 498,900
- Air Pollution and Vulnerability to Alzheimer-like Neuro-degeneration in Transgenic Models
Funding Source: NIH
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Caleb Finch, USC Dept of Gerontology)
Project period: 10/01/2011- 12/01/2015
Total Amount of Award: $ 160,000 (C. Sioutas share only)
- Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System to study optical aerosol properties
Funding Source: University of Vienna
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2013- 02/01/2015
Total Amount of Award: $ 85,000
- Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System ( VACES ) for Inhalation Exposure Studies
Funding Source: University of Bern, Switzerland
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 11/01/2013- 12/01/2014
Total Amount of Award: $ 75,000
- Source Apportionment of PM2.5 in the 8 STN/chemical speciation sites of the state of California
Funding Source: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/2013- 12/01/2016
Total Amount of Award: $ 254,000
- Peripheral Blood Gene Expression in Subjects with Coronary Artery Disease and Exposure to Particulate Air Pollutant Components and Size Fractions
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 08/01/2010-08/31/2016
Total Amount of Award: $ 298,900 (USC’s share at USC: $114,822)
- Evaluation of Ambient Particulate Matter Neurotoxicity Using Primary Human Brain Cells
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Arezoo Campbell, Western University)
Project period: 08 /01/2013- 12/01/2016
Total Amount of Award: $ 575,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $195,500)
- Genetic and Epigenetic Programming of Allergic Airway Inflammation
Funding Source: NIH/NIAID
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Talal Chatila, Harvard Medical School)
Project period: 04/01/2012- 04/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 486,233 (C. Sioutas share at USC)
- Transcriptomics, Oxidative Stress, and Inflammatory Responses to Air Pollutants in an Elderly Cohort
Funding Source: NIEHS/NIH
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 06/01/2011- 06/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $787,867
- The relation of cardiovascular health outcomes to the oxidative potential of particulate air pollution
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (PI- Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 10/01/2013- 12/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 345,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $112,000)
- Measurement of Outdoor Ambient Ultrafine Particulates for a Study of Lung Cancer Risk in California
Funding Source: National Cancer Institute
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/2015 – 09/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 300,000
- Development of fine airborne particulate matter (PM) concentrator
Funding Source: University of Maryland
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 10 /01/2017 – 09/01/2018
Total Amount of Award: $ 96,000
- Southern California Children’s Environmental Health Center (SC-CEHC), Project 3
Funding Source NIEHS/EPA, P01 ES022845 (R McConnell, PI; C Sioutas, Co-I)
Performance Period: 07/01/2013 – 05/31/2018
Total Amount of Award: $ 79,052 (USC C. Sioutas share only))
- Development of an ambient particulate matter (PM) concentrator
Funding Source: Fudan University
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/01/2018 – 09/01/2019
Total Amount of Award: $ 113,000
- Fossil-fuel urban particles and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer transgenic mice
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept of Gerontology)
Project period: 12 /01/2015 – 12/01/2018
Total Amount of Award: $ 535,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $105,500)
- Neurotoxicity of Airborne Particles: Role of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion
Funding Source: National Institute of Health – NIEHS/ONES
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. William Mack, USC Medical School)
Project period: 03 /01/2015 – 03/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,875,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $515,500)
- Inflammation in brain aging: modulation by apoE alleles, gender, and air pollution
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 12 /01/2015 – 12/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,035,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $505,500)
- Development of an ultrafine particulate matter (PM) impactor
Funding Source: Fudan University
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/015/2021 – 03/01/2022
Total Amount of Award: $ 75,000
- Airborne pollutants as triggers of Parkinson’s disease via the olfactory system.
Funding Source: Department of Defense
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 10 /01/2017 – 8/31/2022
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $436,500)
- Monitoring of Air Quality Inside Classrooms
Funding Source: Viterbi School of Engineering, USCs
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 10/01/2021 – 08/31/2022
Total Amount of Award: $ 100,000
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Project period: 12/01/2017 – 12/01/2024
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,009,000 ((C. Sioutas share at USC; $576,718)
- Urban Air Pollution and Alzheimer’s Disease: Risk, Heterogeneity, and Mechanisms- PO1 Award
Funding Source: National Institute of Health/National Institute of Aging
Role: Co-Principal Investigator and Core Director (PI:Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 10/01/2018 -10/31/2024
Total Amount of Award: $ 12,345,000.00 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $592,061)
- Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis Induced by Ambient Ultrafine Particles
Funding Source: National Institute of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI- Jesus Araujo, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 11/01/2018 – 10/31/2023
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $485,000)
- Interplay Between Macrophages, Lipid Oxidation and the Nrf2/HO-1 Axis in the Cardiometabolic Toxicity Induced by Ultrafine
Particles
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI- Jesus Araujo, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 05/01/2021 – 04/30/2026
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $535,000)
- Ambient ultrafine particles induce intestinal inflammation to promote arterial atherosclerosis
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI- Srinivasa Reddy, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 05/01/2022 – 04/30/2025
Total Amount of Award: $ 1,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $345,000)
- Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Allergic Airway Inflammation
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Talal Chatila, Harvard Medical School)
Project period: 01/02/2023 – 01/02/2028
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $645,000)
- Synergistic white matter injury from diesel exhaust particulate and chronic cerebral hypoperfusion exposures: Interaction between the Nogo/NgR1 receptor pathway and extravascular fibrinogen toxicity
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: William Mack, USC Keck School of Medicine)
Project period: 11/1/2022 – 10/31/2026
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $455,000)
Previous Funding:
- Development of a Mobile Exposure Facility to Conduct Inhalation Exposures to Ambient Particles
Funding Source: Air Resources Board, State of California
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 09/01/99-12/30/05
Total Amount of Award: $2,500,000 (USC School of Engineering share: $746,950)
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER CENTER (SCAPMC)
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Exposure Core (Center Director: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 09/01/99-09/30/05 (6 yr renewal pending)
Total Amount of Award: $ 10,719,360 (USC School of Engineering: $1,535,231)
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUPERSITE (SCS)
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 03/01/00-05/31/05
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,699,573 (USC School of Engineering Share: $ 572,140)
- Development and Evaluation of a Novel Sampling Method to Determine the Phase Partitioning of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds.
Funding source: Harvard University (subcontract to USC; Primary Agency; U.S. EPA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 10/01/96-1/31/02
Total Amount of Award: $150,000
5. Experimental Characterization of Aerosol Separators for Capture Effectiveness
Funding Source: Johns Hopkins University; Applied Physics Laboratory
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 09/01/98-08/31/00
Total Amount of Award: $78,073
- Controlled Laboratory Evaluation of Acute Cardiopulmonary Responses to Concentrated Particulates
Funding Source: Health Effects Institute
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Gong, H.Jr, University of Southern California, School of Medicine)
Project period: 08/01/98-04/30/01
Total Amount of Award: $ 614,385
- Collection, Chemical and Toxicological Characterization of Ambient Coarse, Fine and Ultrafine Particulate Matter
Funding Source: Ministry of Housing, Planning and the Environment of the Netherlands
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 11/01/98-12/31/99
Total Amount of Award: $ 89,530
- Development and Evaluation of Three Ambient Particle Concentrators for Animal and Human Inhalation Studies
Funding source: Harvard University (subcontract to USC; Primary Agency; Health Effects Institute)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/98-06/30/99
Total Amount of Award: $60,480.00
- Health Effects of Concentrated Ambient Particles from the Central Valley of California
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Kent Pinkerton, University of California, Davis, Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health)
Project period: 06/01/00-5/31/03
Total Amount of Award: $ 593,071 (USC School of Engineering Share: $198,062)
- Acute Cardiopulmonary Responses to Oxidant Gases and Ambient Particulate Pollution in Los Angeles residents
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Henry Gong, Jr., University of Southern California, School of Medicine)
Project period: 06/01/00-5/31/03
Total Amount of Award: $ 623,038
- Development and Evaluation of a Personal Particle Monitor for Size-Dependent Measurement of Mass and Chemical Composition of Individual Exposures to Particulate Matter
Funding Source: Mickey Leland National Air Toxics Research Center
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 11/01/00-10/31/02
Total Amount of Award: $297,973.
- Development and Evaluation of a Coarse Particle Concentrator for Animal Toxicology Studies to Coarse Particulate Matter
Funding Source: Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Netherlands
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/00-6/31/01
Total Amount of Award: $107,485
- Development of a Mobile Inhalation Toxicology Facility to Support Air Pollution Studies in Taiwan”
Funding Source: Environmental Protection Agency of Taiwan
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/00-3/31/01
Total Amount of Award: $ 50,000
- Relationship between ambient PM and heart rate variability and cardiac arrhythmia in elderly populations in the Los Angeles Basin
Funding Source: California Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/00-3/31/01
Total Amount of Award: $ 93,476
- Deployment and Operation of SMPS and Low Temperature TEOM in locations of the USC Children’s Health Study (CHS) and the Los Angeles Supersite
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board and Air Quality Management District
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 12/01/01-11/30/04
Total Amount of Award: $ 247,115
- Effects of Airborne Particles on Allergic Airway Disease
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Jack Harkema, Michigan State University)
Project period: 12/01/01-11/30/04
Total Amount of Award: $ 854,702
- Development of an Ultrafine Particle Concentrator
Funding Source: National Institute of Public Health and the Environment of the Netherlands (RIVM)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: /1//1/02 – 12/31/02
Total Amount of Award: $ 88,274
- Ultrafine Particle Concentrator Facility for Chronic Exposure Studies
Funding Source: New York University (NYU)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 03/01/02-06/01/02
Total Amount of Award: $ 48,174
- Development of a Technology for High Volume Collection of Ultrafine, Accumulation and Coarse PM for In Vitro Toxicology Studies
Funding Source: University of Montana
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 03/01/03-06/01/03
Total Amount of Award: $ 138,174
- Development Of A Coarse Particle Chemical Speciation Sampler Using a Virtual Impactor Particle Concentrator
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 03/01/03-06/01/03 (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CREDA)
Total Amount of Award: $ 163,234
- A Simple Low-cost Beta Attenuation Monitor (BAM) for Continuous Measurement of PM2.5 or Ultrafine Particle Concentrations
Funding source: California Air Resources Board, ICAT Grant 2003
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (with Philip M. Fine, USC)
Project period: 07/01/03 – 06/30/05
Total Amount of Award: $ 287,660
- 22. A Pilot Study to Characterize Five Particles in the Environment of an Auto- Manufacturing Facility
Funding source: UAW/Chrysler National Training Center
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/96 – 06/30/97
Total Amount of Award: $ 24,197
- Development of an Ambient Fine Particle Concentrator for Human Inhalation Exposure Studies.
Funding source: National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection of the Netherlands (RIVM)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 12/01/96-11/30/97
Total Amount of Award: $ 127,115
- Acute Cardiopulmonary Responses to Concentrated Particulates (Supplement)
Funding Source: Health Effects Institute
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 08/01/98-3/31/00
Total Amount of Award: $ 31,829
- An Automated Aerosol Concentration System for the Collection of Suspended Particulate Matter in Aqueous Solutions Suitable for Toxicological Assays
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 09/01/04-8/31/06
Total Amount of Award: $ 214,195
- Homeland Security Center for Risk Based Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events
Funding Source: Department of Homeland Security
Role: Co- Investigator (Principal Investigator; Randolph Hall, USC School of Engineering)
Project period: 04/01/04-03/31/07
Total Amount of Award: $12,000,000 (C. Sioutas share: $ 424,000)
- Development and Evaluation of Aerosol Instrumentation
Funding Source: TSI Incorporated
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 02/1/2005 to 10/31/2005
Total Amount of Award: $ 110,000
- Center for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Prevention and Education
Funding Source: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Kent Pinkerton, University of California, Davis, Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health)
Project period: 09/30/01-08/31/07
Total Amount of Award: $ 593,071 (USC School of Engineering Share: $108,062
- Pediatric Asthma, Particulate Air Pollution and Nitrogen Dioxide
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health.
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (PI; Dr. Ralph J. Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period; 04/01/2002 to 05/31/2008.
Total Amount of Award: $ 1,899,203 (USC School of Engineering share; $220,506)
- Ultrafine PM and Cardio Respiratory Health
Funding Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS-NIH)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 12/01/03-11/30/08
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,817,789 (USC School of Engineering Share: $715,000)
- Determination of Reactive Oxygen Species Activity in PM and Enhanced Exposure Assessment for the NIH, NIEHS Study Entitled: Ultrafine Particulate Matter and Cardiorespiratory Health
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (with Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine
Project period: 09/1/2004 to 10/31/2008
Total Amount of Award: $750,000 (USC SOE share: $ 314,000)
- Atherogenic Effects of Ambient PM in Susceptible Animals
Funding Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS-NIH)
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (with Andre Nel, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 09/1/2004 to 12/31/2008
Total Amount of Award: $1,530,000 (USC SOE share: $ 391,330)
- Toxicological assessment of particulate emissions from the exhaust of old and new model heavy- and light-duty vehicles
Funding Source: METRANS Transportation Center- US DOT.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Katharine Moore, USC)
Project period: 10/01/2008-12/31/2009
Total Amount of Award: $ 100,000
- Cardiovascular Effects of Ambient PM in Susceptible Animals
Funding Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS-NIH)
Role: Co- Investigator (PI; Michael T. Kleinman, UC Irvine School of Medicine)
Project period: 09/1/2004 to 08/31/2008
Total Amount of Award: $ 750,000 (USC SOE share: $ 150,650)
- Design and evaluation of two high-flow rate, very low pressure drop impactors for collection of coarse, fine and ultrafine particles
Funding Source: US EPA
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2008-12/31/2009
Total Amount of Award: $ 94,244
- MEGacity Aerosols Characterization and Toxicity ( MEGATOX)
Funding Source: Ecole des Mines de Douai, Paris, France.
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2009-12/31/2009
Total Amount of Award: $ 126,750
- Fine Scale Particle Number Concentrations Within Communities and in the Vicinity of Sound Walls
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 12/01/2007-06/06/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 467,000
- Physicochemical and toxicological assessment of the semi-volatile and non-volatile fractions of PM from heavy- and light-duty vehicles operating with and without emissions control technologies
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/01/2007-12/31/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 679,000
- Measurement and Toxicological Assessment of Population Exposures to Airborne Particulate Matter (PM) in Subways and Light Rail Trains
Funding Source: METRANS Transportation Center- US DOT.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Katharine Moore, USC)
Project period: 10/01/2009-12/31/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 200,000
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER CENTER (SCAPMC) Renewal
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Role: Co-Director (Center Director: John Froines. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
Project period: 01/01/2006-12/31/2012 (6 yr renewal)
Total Amount of Award: $ 7,999,360 (USC School of Engineering: $2,135,231)
- Asthma Allergic Disease Research Center (AADCRC)
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Exposure Core Director (Center Director; Andre Nel, UCLA School of Medicine)
Project period: 11/01/2006-10/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 678,000 (USC School of Engineering share); total amount awarded: $6,136,890.
- Sources, Composition, Variability and Toxicological Characteristics of Coarse (PM10-2.5) Particles in Southern California
Funding Source: US EPA
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/01/2008-12/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 1,120,641
- Center for Genomic and Phenomic Studies in Autism (U24)
Funding Source: NIH
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator: Dr. Clara Lajonchere, USC Keck School of Medicine)
Project period: 12/31/2007-11/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,435,109 (USC School of Engineering Share: $458,052)
- Cardiopulmonary Health Effects: Toxicity of Semi-volatile and Non volatile Components of Ultrafine PM.
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Michael Kleinman, UC Irvine)
Project period: 02/01/2009- 12/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 520,641 (USC’s share)
- In-Vehicle Air Pollution Exposure Measurement and Modeling for Pregnant Women in the National Children’s Study
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 02/01/2008-12/31/2012
Total Amount of Award: $ 503,890 (USC’s share)
- Source Apportionment of Carbonaceous Aerosols Using Integrated Multi-Variant and Source Tracer Techniques and a Unique Molecular Marker Data Set
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. James Schauer, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Project period: 02/01/2008-12/31/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 163,670 (USC’s share)
- “Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System ( VACES ) for Inhalation Exposure Studies”
Funding Source: University of Texas
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2012- 02/01/2013
Total Amount of Award: $ 85,000
- “Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System ( VACES ) for Inhalation Exposure Studies”
Funding Source: Max Planck Institute
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/201o- 02/01/2011
Total Amount of Award: $ 75,000
- Health effects of PM particles emitted from heavy-duty vehicles-A comparison between different fuel formulations
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District-AQMD
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. George Karavalakis, UC Riverside))
Project period: 04/01/2012- 09/01/2013
Total Amount of Award: $ 55,000 (C. Sioutas share only)
- Sources, Composition, Variability and Toxicological Characteristics of Ultrafine Particles in Southern California
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)
Role: Principal Investigator Project period: 01/01/2011-12/01/2015
Total Amount of Award: $ 498,900
- Air Pollution and Vulnerability to Alzheimer-like Neuro-degeneration in Transgenic Models
Funding Source: NIH
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Caleb Finch, USC Dept of Gerontology)
Project period: 10/01/2011- 12/01/2015
Total Amount of Award: $ 160,000 (C. Sioutas share only)
- Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System to study optical aerosol properties
Funding Source: University of Vienna
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 04/01/2013- 02/01/2015
Total Amount of Award: $ 85,000
- Development of a Versatile Aerosol Concentration System ( VACES ) for Inhalation Exposure Studies
Funding Source: University of Bern, Switzerland
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 11/01/2013- 12/01/2014
Total Amount of Award: $ 75,000
- Source Apportionment of PM2.5 in the 8 STN/chemical speciation sites of the state of California
Funding Source: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/2013- 12/01/2016
Total Amount of Award: $ 254,000
- Peripheral Blood Gene Expression in Subjects with Coronary Artery Disease and Exposure to Particulate Air Pollutant Components and Size Fractions
Funding Source: California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 08/01/2010-08/31/2016
Total Amount of Award: $ 298,900 (USC’s share at USC: $114,822)
- Evaluation of Ambient Particulate Matter Neurotoxicity Using Primary Human Brain Cells
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Arezoo Campbell, Western University)
Project period: 08 /01/2013- 12/01/2016
Total Amount of Award: $ 575,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $195,500)
- Genetic and Epigenetic Programming of Allergic Airway Inflammation
Funding Source: NIH/NIAID
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Talal Chatila, Harvard Medical School)
Project period: 04/01/2012- 04/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 486,233 (C. Sioutas share at USC)
- Transcriptomics, Oxidative Stress, and Inflammatory Responses to Air Pollutants in an Elderly Cohort
Funding Source: NIEHS/NIH
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 06/01/2011- 06/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $787,867
- The relation of cardiovascular health outcomes to the oxidative potential of particulate air pollution
Funding Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (PI- Ralph Delfino, UC Irvine)
Project period: 10/01/2013- 12/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 345,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $112,000)
- Measurement of Outdoor Ambient Ultrafine Particulates for a Study of Lung Cancer Risk in California
Funding Source: National Cancer Institute
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 07/01/2015 – 09/01/2017
Total Amount of Award: $ 300,000
- Development of fine airborne particulate matter (PM) concentrator
Funding Source: University of Maryland
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 10 /01/2017 – 09/01/2018
Total Amount of Award: $ 96,000
- Southern California Children’s Environmental Health Center (SC-CEHC), Project 3
Funding Source NIEHS/EPA, P01 ES022845 (R McConnell, PI; C Sioutas, Co-I)
Performance Period: 07/01/2013 – 05/31/2018
Total Amount of Award: $ 79,052 (USC C. Sioutas share only))
- Development of an ambient particulate matter (PM) concentrator
Funding Source: Fudan University
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/01/2018 – 09/01/2019
Total Amount of Award: $ 113,000
- Fossil-fuel urban particles and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer transgenic mice
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept of Gerontology)
Project period: 12 /01/2015 – 12/01/2018
Total Amount of Award: $ 535,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $105,500)
- Neurotoxicity of Airborne Particles: Role of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion
Funding Source: National Institute of Health – NIEHS/ONES
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. William Mack, USC Medical School)
Project period: 03 /01/2015 – 03/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,875,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $515,500)
- Inflammation in brain aging: modulation by apoE alleles, gender, and air pollution
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 12 /01/2015 – 12/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,035,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $505,500)
- Development of an ultrafine particulate matter (PM) impactor
Funding Source: Fudan University
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/015/2021 – 03/01/2022
Total Amount of Award: $ 75,000
- Airborne pollutants as triggers of Parkinson’s disease via the olfactory system.
Funding Source: Department of Defense
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 10 /01/2017 – 8/31/2022
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $436,500)
- Monitoring of Air Quality Inside Classrooms
Funding Source: Viterbi School of Engineering, USCs
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 10/01/2021 – 08/31/2022
Total Amount of Award: $ 100,000
- Neurotoxicity of Airborne Particles: Role of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion
Funding Source: National Institute of Health – NIEHS/ONES
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. William Mack, USC Medical School)
Project period: 03 /01/2015 – 03/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,875,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $515,500)
- Inflammation in brain aging: modulation by apoE alleles, gender, and air pollution
Funding Source: National Institute of Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 12 /01/2015 – 12/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,035,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $505,500)
- Airborne pollutants as triggers of Parkinson’s disease via the olfactory system.
Funding Source: Department of Defense
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 10 /01/2017 – 12/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC; $436,500)
- Genetic and Epigenetic Programming of Allergic Airway Inflammation
Funding Source: National Institute of Health NIH
Role: Co- Principal Investigator (PI: Talal Chatila, Harvard Medical School)
Project period: 12/01/2017 – 12/01/2022
Total Amount of Award: $ 3,009,000 ((C. Sioutas share at USC; $576,718)
- Urban Air Pollution and Alzheimer’s Disease: Risk, Heterogeneity, and Mechanisms- PO1 Award
Funding Source: National Institute of Health/National Institute of Aging
Role: Co-Principal Investigator and Core Director (PI:Caleb Finch, USC Dept Gerontology)
Project period: 10/01/2018 -10/31/2023
Total Amount of Award: $ 12,345,000.00 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $592,061)
- Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Dyslipidemia and Atherosclerosis Induced by Ambient Ultrafine Particles
Funding Source: National Institute of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Project period: 11/01/2018 – 10/31/2023 (PI- Jesus Araujo, UCLA School of Medicine)
Total Amount of Award: $ 2,500,000 (C. Sioutas share at USC: $485,000)
- Development of an ultrafine particulate matter (PM) impactor
Funding Source: Fudan University
Role: Principal Investigator
Project period: 01/15/2021 – 09/01/2021
Total Amount of Award: $ 75,000