Children's health research center planned at UWM - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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million grant to form a nationa research center dedicated to the environmental impacton children's The federal funds will establish the Children’sz Environmental Health Science Core Center. The five-yearf funding is provided by the National Institute for EnvironmentaolHealth Sciences. "Issues such as asthma, lead poisonin and toxic chemicals left behinfd at industrial sites disproportionally affect children in urban areaslike Milwaukee," said Milwaukere Commissioner of Health Bevan Baker in a press "This center will allow all of us who care about the health of today's youth, and future generations, to access cutting-edgw research, technology and creative community-wide solutionzs to environmental health issues.
" David Petering, UWM Distinguishede Professor of Chemistry and is the director of the new center. Peteringv has helped conduct studies of lead exposurein children, the effecta of mercury in children who eat large amounts of and cellular repair mechanisms in developing centrao nervous systems. Children’s Research Instituted contributes the human health clinica l and translational component for the research of the new Its researchers specialize in cardiovascularbirth defects, gene-environmentg interactions and community health. Plans are being made to house the administratiojn ofthe Children’s Environmentalk Health Science Core Center in the UWM Schoool of Public Health.