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EPA Awards $2M to Study Impacts of Nanoparticles on the Brain; Ceria Nanoparticles in Diesel Fuel Additive as Model

Posted on August 21, 2008

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $2 million grant to the University of Kentucky (UK) to investigate how the sizes and shapes of nanoparticles affect their ability to enter the brain. This is the largest EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant ever awarded to the University of Kentucky as well as the largest single grant ever awarded by EPA STAR for nanotechnology research.The research team, led by Dr. Robert Yokel, will study the potential health impacts of nano-sized cerium oxide (CeO2), a diesel fuel additive. Used presently in Europe (e.g., Oxonica ENVIROX), it is ...

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