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Lead Poisoning: 54 NIH awards ($50.6M) to 34 organizations
54 NIH awards ($50.6M) in the NIH spending category Lead Poisoning, to 34 organizations, read 2026-11-03. NIH fiscal years 2021 to 2025.
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Metal Mixtures: Cognitive Aging, Remediation and Exposure Sources (MEMCARE) | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2024 | $6,396,550 | February 21, 2020 | May 9, 2025 | LU, QUAN | reporter.nih.gov |
| FY25-FY29 NIEHS WTP | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2025 | $3,138,415 | March 31, 2021 | May 31, 2030 | CASAVANT, DAVID | reporter.nih.gov |
| Mechanisms of gene-environment interaction in developmental lead exposure leading to Alzheimer's disease phenotypes | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | 2022 to 2025 | $2,975,224 | September 20, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | FREEMAN, JENNIFER L. | reporter.nih.gov |
| Risk of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias from Perinatal Lead Exposure: Brain Region and Cell Type Effects | NIH | National Institute on Aging | 2022 to 2025 | $2,973,551 | February 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | BAKULSKI, KELLY | reporter.nih.gov |
| The impact of metals and polygenic risk on multiomics, brain aging, and ADRD outcomes | NIH | National Institute on Aging | 2024 to 2025 | $2,926,626 | September 30, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | COLACINO, JUSTIN ADAM | reporter.nih.gov |
| Universal strengths-based parenting support in pediatric health care for families with very young children following the Flint Water Crisis | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | 2021 to 2023 | $2,142,586 | March 1, 2019 | February 28, 2026 | MENDELSOHN, ALAN L. | reporter.nih.gov |
| Prenatal and Early Postnatal Lead Exposure on Childhood and Adolescent Brain, Cognitive and Behavioral Development | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2024 | $2,114,811 | August 17, 2020 | June 30, 2026 | SOWELL, ELIZABETH R | reporter.nih.gov |
| Early Life Environment Modifies Behavioral, Epigenetic, and Transcriptional Outcomes from Developmental Lead Exposure | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2024 | $2,064,068 | August 14, 2020 | May 31, 2026 | SCHNEIDER, JAY S | reporter.nih.gov |
| Contraceptive DMPA-induced bone loss: A novel source of toxic metal lead exposure in young women | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | 2023 to 2025 | $1,781,100 | September 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | UPSON, KRISTEN | reporter.nih.gov |
| A Paper-Based Synthetic Biology Platform for the On-Demand Testing of Water Quality | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2022 to 2023 | $1,730,738 | September 20, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | ALAM, KHALID KAMAL | reporter.nih.gov |
| Inequities in Childhood Life-Course Lead Exposure and Academic and Neurobehavioral Outcomes (I-CLEAN) | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2023 to 2025 | $1,709,172 | May 9, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | WU, JUN | reporter.nih.gov |
| The Role of m6A-RNA Methylation in Memory Formation and Recall and Its Modulation and Influence on Long-Term Outcomes as a Consequence of Early Life Lead Exposure | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2023 to 2025 | $1,641,451 | June 15, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | SCHNEIDER, JAY S | reporter.nih.gov |
| Elucidate Gene-environmental interactions employed by Pb in promoting ADRD in aging brains | NIH | National Institute on Aging | 2024 to 2025 | $1,554,296 | September 15, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | YUAN, CHONGLI | reporter.nih.gov |
| Relating phthalate and metals exposure during pregnancy and perimenopause to bone health and body composition in midlife | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2025 | $1,521,797 | September 10, 2020 | June 30, 2027 | WATKINS, DEBORAH J | reporter.nih.gov |
| Metals in the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy 2 (TACT2M) | NIH | National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health | 2021 | $1,399,325 | September 30, 2016 | April 30, 2022 | LAMAS, GERVASIO A | reporter.nih.gov |
| SPP1, Oxidative Stress, and Lead Toxicity | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2022 | $1,132,499 | September 30, 2018 | August 31, 2024 | LU, QUAN | reporter.nih.gov |
| Neurobiology of lead exposure and risk of psychiatric disease | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $1,062,516 | February 8, 2024 | November 30, 2028 | GUILARTE, TOMAS R | reporter.nih.gov |
| Transcriptomic and epigenetic mechanisms of lead (Pb)-induced neurobehavioral disease in aged populations and subsequent generations | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2023 to 2025 | $1,005,122 | January 17, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | BAKER, TRACIE R | reporter.nih.gov |
| Evaluation of Pb-induced perturbations in the central and enteric nervous system | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $790,668 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2028 | MORTON, PAUL DAVID | reporter.nih.gov |
| Follow-up and Maintenance of the Newborn Epigenetics STudy (NEST) Cohort | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2022 | $761,041 | September 30, 2018 | June 30, 2024 | HOYO, CATHRINE | reporter.nih.gov |
| Impact of HIV and toxic metals exposure on neurodevelopment at school age | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | 2025 | $734,151 | September 10, 2025 | May 31, 2026 | JOHN-STEWART, GRACE C. | reporter.nih.gov |
| Improving precision in modeling childhood executive function trajectories using psychometrics | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development | 2021 to 2025 | $650,514 | July 1, 2021 | June 30, 2026 | LIU, SHELLEY HAN | reporter.nih.gov |
| Does lead (Pb) poisoning impair brain development by affecting how thyroid hormone gets into the brain? | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $640,000 | April 15, 2024 | February 28, 2030 | BUCZYNSKI, MATTHEW WALLACE | reporter.nih.gov |
| Healthy Cities for Healthy Brains: Implementation of a Lead Exposure Intervention Program in Nairobi | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2025 | $598,560 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | KARR, CATHERINE J | reporter.nih.gov |
| A Novel Spray-On Sensing Platform Technology that Enables Wearable Visual Monitoring of Physiological Data and Environmental Exposure | NIH | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering | 2023 to 2024 | $518,714 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2025 | JAWORSKI, JUSTYN | reporter.nih.gov |
| The role of toxic and essential metal mixtures, and co-exposures to social stressors, in cognitive aging, mild cognitive impairment, and novel epigenetic age biomarkers: The Baltimore Memory Study | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $496,688 | June 13, 2021 | February 28, 2027 | MOON, KATHERINE A | reporter.nih.gov |
| Global Health Research and Training in Cardiovascular Disease | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | 2022 to 2025 | $488,256 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | MCNAIRY, MARGARET LEIGHTON | reporter.nih.gov |
| BRINGING MODERN DATA SCIENCE TOOLS TO BEAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL MIXTURES | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 | $487,253 | September 30, 2020 | January 31, 2023 | MIRANDA, MARIE LYNN | reporter.nih.gov |
| Suppression of progesterone receptor signaling by heavy metals promotes tamoxifen resistance and metastasis or ER+ breast cancer | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $453,806 | June 24, 2024 | May 27, 2025 | BONINI, MARCELO G. | reporter.nih.gov |
| Lead Exposure and Beta-Amyloid Transport by Brain Barriers | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 | $415,996 | August 15, 2017 | July 31, 2023 | ZHENG, WEI | reporter.nih.gov |
| Developmental exposure to lead and noradrenergic regulation of the acute stress response | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2025 | $400,847 | May 12, 2025 | May 11, 2027 | ABDELMONEIM, AHMED | reporter.nih.gov |
| GXE and Cognitive Impairment | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 | $349,875 | February 1, 2017 | January 31, 2024 | XIA, ZHENGUI | reporter.nih.gov |
| Sex-Specific Metabolic and Epigenetic Programming of Cardiac Differentiation by Developmental Lead Exposure. | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2022 | $311,750 | August 25, 2020 | July 31, 2023 | SVOBODA, LAURIE KATHLEEN | reporter.nih.gov |
| Imprinted Gene Regulation by in utero Lead Exposure in Mice | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $308,618 | February 13, 2024 | January 31, 2026 | PERERA, BAMBARENDAGE PINITHI UPEKKA | reporter.nih.gov |
| Electrochemical POU Water Purification System | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2022 to 2023 | $299,719 | September 15, 2017 | January 31, 2026 | BOEHME, LINDSAY | reporter.nih.gov |
| Optimization and Validation of Minimally-Invasive and Low-Cost Blood Collection Device for Lead Testing | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 | $295,923 | September 11, 2024 | August 31, 2025 | AHUJA, PUNKAJ | reporter.nih.gov |
| Simulation for Environmental Exposure Education (S3E): A Serious Game Platform for Environmental Health Literacy | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2022 | $259,120 | June 27, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | KUHN, TAMARA J. | reporter.nih.gov |
| Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions in Developmental Lead Exposure | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2023 | $254,250 | September 16, 2020 | July 31, 2025 | SAMPSON, MAUREEN MCGUIRK | reporter.nih.gov |
| Influence of Diet, Iron Stores, and Toxic Metals on Uptakes and Effects on Uterine Fibroid Risk in African American Women | NIH | National Institute of Nursing Research | 2021 | $245,080 | April 10, 2019 | September 30, 2023 | UPSON, KRISTEN | reporter.nih.gov |
| Disparate Exposures, Disparate Outcomes: The Effect of Cumulative Disadvantage | NIH | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | 2021 | $224,362 | September 27, 2016 | May 31, 2024 | BRAVO, MERCEDES AURELIA | reporter.nih.gov |
| Joint effects of early life Pb and psychosocial exposures on stress and cardiometabolic health | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2025 | $204,679 | March 20, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | HALABICKY, OLIVIA MARYFRANCES | reporter.nih.gov |
| Environmental Lead Pollution and Heart Failure in Haiti | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | 2025 | $176,580 | September 17, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | YAN, LILY DU | reporter.nih.gov |
| Nucleic acid aptamers as interventions for developmental neurotoxicity | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2025 | $146,624 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | FARNY, NATALIE GILKS | reporter.nih.gov |
| Socioenvironmental Causes of Elevated Toxic Metal Levels and Epigenetic Aging | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2023 | $124,458 | May 1, 2021 | April 30, 2024 | LODGE, EVANS | reporter.nih.gov |
| Investigating Determinants of Perinatal Lead Exposure, Associations with Preterm Birth, and Reporting Back Research Results | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2024 to 2025 | $114,512 | May 15, 2024 | May 14, 2028 | EATMAN, JASMIN AFRICALI | reporter.nih.gov |
| Creating Pb Risk Mitigation Using Source Apportionment in an EJ Community | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2023 to 2025 | $112,075 | September 15, 2023 | September 14, 2028 | STRATTON, SEAN | reporter.nih.gov |
| The joint effects of early life lead exposure, and psychosocial co-exposures, on physiological stress and cardiometabolic health across the life course | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2025 | $107,493 | March 20, 2025 | August 31, 2025 | HALABICKY, OLIVIA MARYFRANCES | reporter.nih.gov |
| Boston Early Adversity and Mortality Study (BEAMS): Linking Administrative Data to Long-Term Longitudinal Studies | NIH | National Institute on Aging | 2023 | $103,198 | April 1, 2023 | June 30, 2024 | MROCZEK, DANIEL K. | reporter.nih.gov |
| Lead (Pb) toxicity on mechanisms of neurodevelopment by dysregulation of thyroid hormone distributor proteins in Xenopus laevis | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 to 2022 | $78,402 | July 1, 2020 | June 30, 2023 | DAHORA, LARA IZA | reporter.nih.gov |
| Cumulative Lead Exposure in Veterans with PTSD: Examining Firearm Use and Cognitive Therapy Outcomes with novel portable X-Ray Fluorescence | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2025 | $52,538 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2027 | HOOVER, CHRISTIAN SHAW | reporter.nih.gov |
| A Paper-Based Synthetic Biology Platform for the On-Demand Testing of Water Quality | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2021 | $52,000 | May 24, 2021 | July 13, 2021 | ALAM, KHALID KAMAL | reporter.nih.gov |
| Early Childhood Housing Condition, Education, and Criminal Behavior | NIH | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | 2023 | $45,504 | September 30, 2024 | September 29, 2025 | HESS, ANDREW J | reporter.nih.gov |
| Investigating the Role of Apoptosis in Early Life Vulnerability to Lead-Induced Neurotoxicity | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 2025 | $42,220 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | OSMAN, MARWA | reporter.nih.gov |
| Disparate Exposures, Disparate Outcomes: The Effect of Cumulative Disadvantage | NIH | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | 2021 | $1 | September 27, 2016 | August 21, 2021 | BRAVO, MERCEDES AURELIA | reporter.nih.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | $11,173,920 | 0 | $0 |
| 2024 | 25 | $11,805,867 | 0 | $0 |
| 2023 | 22 | $9,699,370 | 0 | $0 |
| 2022 | 19 | $8,732,824 | 0 | $0 |
| 2021 | 21 | $9,203,341 | 0 | $0 |
Open federal funding opportunities
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Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.