PROGRESS: Childhood growth, home environment, and stress
The Programming Research in Obesity, GRowth, Environment and Social Stress (PROGRESS) Cohort
Researchers are following children and teens to see how home chemical exposures, air pollution, and social stress relate to growth, breathing, learning, and metabolism.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (New York, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11325695 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
This long-running birth cohort follows children from early life through adolescence and collects detailed information from their homes about air pollution, metals, and other chemical and social exposures. Families provide biosamples, take part in standardized developmental, respiratory, and metabolic tests, and use passive samplers or sensors to measure home environments. The team combines these measurements with new 'bioethnography' methods and economic and community-engaged tools to better understand everyday exposures. Data are shared across collaborating institutions to allow comparisons with other child environmental health cohorts.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Children and adolescents (and their caregivers) living near the study sites who can attend follow-up visits, provide samples, and allow home environmental sampling are the ideal participants.
Not a fit: People without children, children who live far from the participating sites, or those unable to attend visits or provide home samples are unlikely to benefit directly from joining this cohort.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the work could point to specific home exposures that harm child health and suggest ways families and health providers can reduce risks.
How similar studies have performed: Other long-term birth cohorts have linked early-life environmental exposures to child development and health, and this project builds on that established evidence.
Where this research is happening
New York, United States
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — New York, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Rosa, Maria Jose — Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Study coordinator: Rosa, Maria Jose
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 below.