ArticleToxicology2025
Reflections on the NIEHS Virtual Consortium funding mechanism (ViCTER) and what it has taught us about the future of transdisciplinary science.
Article in Toxicology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Psychiatric Risk Implications From Behavioral and Neural Effects of Adolescent Exposure to Environmental Insecticides: A Systematic Review of Rodent Studies.Biological psychiatry · 2026Review
- Prenatal stress selectively enhances locomotor hyperactivity in male mice with embryonic loss ofFrontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
Abstract
In environmental health science, collaboration across disciplines is often encouraged but rarely specifically solicited through funding mechanisms. The United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Virtual Consortium for Translational/Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (ViCTER) program fostered and promoted early-stage transdisciplinary collaborations among basic, clinical, and population-based researchers in the environmental health field. ViCTER awards are typically three-year R01 grants that include at least one NIEHS-funded PI and engage partners from distinct disciplines or institutions. By design, ViCTER created space for scientifically diverse research teams, including epidemiologists, clinicians, toxicologists, molecular biologists, often across multiple institutions, to work side-by-side, not sequentially, to address complex environmental challenges. This commentary reflects on how ViCTER catalyzed scientific advances, transformed careers, and created a model for the future of translational environmental health research.
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Registered trials
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