Personalized reports for environmental and biological test results
Official title: From the Cell to the Street: Personalized Report-Back in Large Cohort Studies with Multi-Level Measurements
Funded at Silent Spring Institute · NIH-11385316 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This project builds easy-to-understand, smartphone-friendly reports that explain environmental exposures and biological test results for people who joined pregnancy cohorts.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Silent Spring Institute NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Newton, United States) |
| Project start | May 20, 2024 |
| Project end | February 29, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $387,653 |
| NIH project number | 5R01ES036234-03 |
| Project ID | NIH-11385316 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Primary participants are pregnant people enrolled in the Chemicals in Our Bodies (CIOB) or Illinois Kids Development Study (IKIDS) cohorts who provided biospecimens and exposure data.
✕Less likely to help
People who did not provide biomonitoring or exposure data or who are not enrolled in the listed cohorts are unlikely to receive personalized reports from this project.
What this research studies
If you joined one of these pregnancy cohorts, the team will gather your environmental, chemical, and cellular measurements and turn them into a personalized report you can view on a phone. They will adapt and expand the Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI) so it can handle hundreds of measures from neighborhood data, biomonitoring, and cellular indicators. The reports will be piloted and refined using feedback from participants in the Chemicals in Our Bodies (CIOB) and Illinois Kids Development Study (IKIDS) cohorts. The project aims to find clear, participant-centered and ethically sound ways to share complex exposome information back to large groups of participants.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, people who gave samples could get clearer, actionable explanations of their exposures and biological results to help inform personal or public-health decisions.
How similar studies have gone: The project builds on the already-used DERBI tool, which has returned chemical exposure results in other cohorts, but applying report-back to large, multi-level exposome data across pregnancy cohorts is a newer effort.
Where this research is happening
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Silent Spring Institute
Newton, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Brody, Julia Green — Silent Spring Institute
- Study coordinator: Brody, Julia Green
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About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.