MATRIX Lab UMD SPH

Grants

Research support, current and past.

Active

Current funding

  • Quantifying and Predicting the Health Impacts of Wildfires and Extreme Heat Events Among End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients

    Role: Contact Principal Investigator (Multiple-PI, with Amir Sapkota) · NIEHS / NIH · 1R21ES037480-01

    Sep 2025 – Sep 2027

    Links wildfire smoke and extreme heat exposure to hospitalization and mortality risk in a highly vulnerable dialysis population, and builds predictive models to support early warning.

    Active R21 NIEHS/NIH

  • Sustaining and Diversifying an Environmental Health Research Program on Late-Onset Asthma: Pilot Microbiome and Metabolome Profiling

    Role: Principal Investigator · MPower Early Scholars Investment Fund, University of Maryland

    Jul 2026 – Jun 2027

    Pilot microbiome and metabolome profiling to extend the lab's environmental health work into late-onset asthma.

    Active UMD

  • AWareness Against Health ThReats of Climate ChangE (AWARE)

    Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Amir Sapkota) · NSF / Belmont Forum · RISE2538018

    Aug 2025 – Aug 2028

    An international Belmont Forum collaboration on climate-sensitive health threats. The lab contributes statistical and machine-learning methodology for exposure–outcome modeling.

    Active NSF / Belmont Forum

  • The Air We Share: A Public Health Revolution for the 21st Century

    Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Donald K. Milton) · Grand Challenges 2.0 Team Grant, University of Maryland

    Jul 2026 – Jun 2029

    A university-wide team award on indoor air quality and airborne transmission, with the lab leading analysis of high-dimensional bioaerosol and microbiome data.

    Active UMD

  • Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response

    Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Donald K. Milton) · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (prime: NIAID / NIH) · 75N93021C00014

    Apr 2021 – Mar 2028

    Federal contract supporting influenza research and response, including causal analysis of respiratory virus transmission in residential cohorts.

    Active NIAID/NIH Resulting publications

Completed

Past funding

  • Exploring Changes in Short-Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs) During Pregnancy in Mothers of Children with Childhood Asthma

    Role: Principal Investigator · NIH / NICHD · Early Career Award

    Oct 2021 – Sep 2022

    Examined short-chain fatty acid trajectories across pregnancy in relation to childhood asthma, leading to work on fetal lung development published in Genes.

    Completed NICHD Resulting publications

Acknowledgment

Work in the MATRIX Lab is supported by the University of Maryland School of Public Health and by the sponsors listed above. The content of this site is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of any funding agency.