NIEHS Mission | EGP Related Activities

NIEHS Mission
The EGP is a program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health (NIEHS/NIH) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. NIEHS supports an extensive group of extramural and intramural research activities and it is also the home of the National Toxicology Program. Some of the most active areas of research at NIEHS are:

• Children's Health (childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes, cleft palate)
• Women's Health (breast cancer, autoimmune diseases, uterine fibroids)
• Health Disparities/Environmental Justice
• Parkinson's Disease
• Nutrition
• Asthma

The mission of NIEHS is to:

reduce the burden of environmentally associated disease and dysfunction by defining:

The EGP focuses specifically on the second goal in the NIEHS mission, understanding genetic susceptibility to environmentally-induced disease.

EGP Related Activities
Other NIEHS and NIH programs whose goals are related to the goals of the EGP include:

• The National Center for Toxicogenomics (NCT)
• NCBI dbSNP Database
• NCI CGAP Genetic Annotation Initiative (GAI) SNP Database
• UW-FHCRC Variation Discovery Resource (SeattleSNPs)
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)