Recently, the project "Identification and Characterization of Exogenous Pollutants in Life Process" (Project No.: 22193050) led by Academician Jiang Guibin from the School of Environment, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), UCAS, has been approved as a major project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The project is jointly undertaken by the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS and Xiamen University.
NSFC major project:Identification and Characterization of Exogenous Pollutants in Life Process
The project investigates the key scientific issue of how pollutants affect human health. It focuses on the analysis of health effects and global pollution components, and follows the procedures of identification, source tracing and cause analysis. Through the three subprojects of identification and characterization of exogenous pollutants in the life process (undertaken by the Ecological Environment Center), the exposure pathway and fate of exogenous pollutants in the life process (undertaken by the School of Environment, HIAS), and the toxicity and physiological disturbance molecular mechanism of exogenous pollutants (undertaken by Xiamen University), the project aims to achieve the goal of identifying the causes of major diseases related to environmental pollution.
Professor Hu Ligang of the School of Environment, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS leads the second subproject of the major project (approval number: 22193052), with a direct fund of RMB 4.31 million. Associate Professor Zhang Haiyan and Assistant Research Fellow Yang Xuezhi from the School of Environment are the main participants in the subproject. The subproject will establish a new method for in vivo tracing of exogenous pollutants, reveal the impact of exposure pathways on the occurrence characteristics and changes of typical exogenous pollutants in the human body, explore the occurrence characteristics and transport mechanisms of typical exogenous pollutants at both ends of the blood-brain, placenta, and blood-air barrier, and reveal the metabolic characteristics and related molecular mechanisms of typical exogenous pollutants in the whole life cycle of organisms.
The NSFC major projects focus on major scientific issues in the frontiers of science and concerning the needs of national economy, society, scientific and technological development and national security. They involve interdisciplinary and comprehensive research and play a supporting and leading role in enhancing the innovation ability of China's basic research.
Source |School of Environment
