$30 million EPA research grant goes to UW
By Craig Welch
Seattle Times staff reporter
University of Washington scientists will receive $30 million from the Environmental Protection Agency for a 10-year study that will examine the links between ambient air pollution and heart disease among older adults of various ethnic groups.
The EPA awarded its largest research grant ever yesterday to Dr. Joel Kaufman, an associate professor in the department of environmental and occupational health sciences. Kaufman will try to pinpoint more precisely the relationship between small particles of air pollution that can lodge in the lungs, and the nation's leading cause of death.