Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Laboratory Core

The National Institutes of Health has issued seven separate, but closely related, funding opportunities to support a network of R&D activities to study Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). The goal of all of them is to further investigate the roles of a broad range of early exposures from society to biology, including the preconception period, on ECHO’s five key child health outcome areas—pre-, peri- and postnatal, upper and lower airways, obesity, neurodevelopment, and positive health—among diverse populations. Four of the opportunities will make single awards to establish a $7.5million ECHO Laboratory Core (RFA-OD-22-016), a $3.5 million Measurement Core (RFA-OD-22-020), a $14 million ECHO Coordinating Center (RFA-OD-22-021), and a $14.5 million ECHO Data Analysis Center (RFA-OD--22-022). The remaining three announcements will make 50 awards between them from a pool of $117 million to support individual research projects targeting different populations: pregnancies (RFA-OD-22-017), pregnancies and pediatrics (RFA-OD-22-017) and pediatric follow-ups (RFA-OD-22-018).

Deadline : November 21, 2022

For more information, see the announcement