The NIEHS Center for Research on Environmental Disease (CRED) has been a highly productive and vibrant Center since its inception in 1996. This Center is a collaboration between the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC), the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), and the UT School of Public Health in Houston (UTSPH), each a part of the University of Texas multiple component system. Administratively based at the Science Park – Research Division of the UTMDACC in Smithville, Texas, the CRED also has faculty located at the UT Austin main campus, the UTMDACC main campus in Houston and the UTSPH.
The primary objective of the CRED is to study the mechanisms by which environmental factors may cause or influence human disease and to develop methods for early detection, prevention, and control of environmentally-related diseases. The unifying theme for the CRED is to define host responses to environmental exposures and to understand how diet, genetic and epigenetic factors influence these responses.
Our vision is to make a significant contribution to human health in the areas of cancer, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma. It is our goal to realize this vision by fostering interdisciplinary environmental research in human health and disease between and among CRED investigators. This Center integrates clinical researchers seeking to understand how environmental exposures influence the development of human disease with basic researchers developing in vivo models for human disease and investigating basic mechanisms of cell biology and development. Our strategy is to focus these clinical, preclinical, and basic research investigations on common diseases using shared environmental exposures. In this way, we will use a comparative biology approach to identify conserved biologic responses to environmental exposures and to uncover new biological mechanisms that contribute to environmental disease.
Contact information:
John DiGiovanni, Ph.D.
CRED Director
jdigiova@mdanderson.org
(512) 237-9414 ph.
(512) 237-2522 fax
Sydni McGahan
CRED Administrator
smcgahan@mdanderson.org
(512) 237-9444 ph.
(512) 237-2990 fax
Robin Fuchs-Young, Ph.D.
Community Outreach and Education Core Director
rfyoung@mdanderson.org
(512) 237-9547 ph.
(512) 237-2990 fax
Mailing Address:
CRED
P.O. Box 389
Smithville , TX 78957
