University Research Corridor seed funding of more than $750,000 will support two major environmental health studies including researchers from all three member institutions: Wayne State University, Michigan State University and University of Michigan. One of the projects, the Michigan Bloodspot Environmental Epidemiology Project, will use Michigan\'s newborn blood spot repository to investigate whether researchers can obtain environmental exposure and genetic information from the available bloodspots. Mary Dereski, Wayne State University associate professor and principal investigator, along with Helena Krouse, co-principal investigator and professor of nursing, commented about the project.

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