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Superfund Research Program

September 25, 2009

Registration for Annual Meeting Now Open

Registration for the SRP Annual Meeting, “Emerging Issues, Emerging Progress” is now open. This year’s meeting, to be held November 3-4, will feature six scientific sessions highlighting new research findings that are of direct relevance to the U.S. EPA’s work at Superfund sites. Satellite meetings for Program administration, individual researchers, and research translation and outreach cores will be held on November 5. Meeting information is available on the meeting website, including accommodation information, registration forms, and poster abstract submittal forms.

June 11, 2009

SRP Researchers Establish Link Between Arsenic Exposure and Death from Influenza Virus

Courtney Kozul and Josh Hamilton (Dartmouth SRP) have established a link between exposure to arsenic and respiratory infections from influenza, a significant public heath concern and a major cause of death worldwide. In a study, soon to be published in Environmental Health Perspectives, Kozul exposed mice to 100 ppb of arsenic in their drinking water for five weeks and then infected them with the H1N1 virus (the “swine flu” virus). She found that these mice had significantly increased risk of death from respiratory infections when compared to the mice infected with the H1N1 virus, but not exposed to arsenic. These finding suggest that risks of influenza are increased by arsenic exposure. They will continue their work by exposing mice to lower doses of arsenic, such as 10 ppb.

The full article is available for free at EHP Online.

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June 11, 2009

SRP Welcomes New Grantees

The Superfund Research Program wishes to extend a warm welcome to their new grantees. Drs. Jon Chorover (University of Arizona), Joseph M. K. Iruadaraj (Purdue), H. Peter Lu (Bowling Green State University), and Gemma Reguera (Michigan State University) were recently awarded individual research grants (R01) to undertake projects exploring the use of nanomaterials in remediation.

More information about the grantees research can be found on the SRP Individual Research Grants webpage.

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March 17, 2009

SRP Student Wins Awards at Society of Toxicology Meeting

SRP-Dartmouth student Courtney Kozul won four awards at this year’s Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, March 15-19, 2009.

Kozul’s research, exploring the effects of chronic low doses of arsenic ingested via drinking water, earned her the Women in Toxicology Vera W. Hudson and Elizabeth K. Weisburger Scholarship Fund Student Award, the Northeast Society of Toxicology 3^rd place Graduate Student Travel Award, the Molecular Biology Specialty Section 1^st Place Graduate Student Research Competition, and a graduate student travel award from the meeting organizers.

The awards point to the quality of research and caliber of students trained by the SRP. According to Josh Hamilton, Kozul’s research advisor and professor in the Dartmouth Medical School Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Program, "The success of her project also highlights how the interdisciplinary environment of the Superfund Training Program fosters high-caliber, innovative and highly translational science that addresses real-world problems."

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