Exposing Connections Between Air Pollution and Early Brain Development
December 12, 2023
Megan Herting, Ph.D.
Megan Herting, Ph.D., wants to understand environmental ties between the brain and human behavior.
Gut Check: Studying Environmental Connections Between Diet and Disease
November 29, 2023
Michael Petriello, Ph.D.
NIEHS grant recipient Michael Petriello, Ph.D., studies how the interplay between environmental pollutants and nutrition influences health.
Connecting DNA, Autoimmunity, and the Environment
October 11, 2023
Joann Sweasy, Ph.D.
NIEHS RIVER grantee Joann Sweasy, Ph.D., is exploring how gene-environment interactions affect the development of lupus.
Harnessing Data to Track Understudied Air Pollution Impacts
September 19, 2023
Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Sc.D.
Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Sc.D., an environmental engineer and epidemiologist at Columbia University, studies the effects of air pollution on populations and develops innovative methods to study the health effects of environmental exposures.
What Makes Us Tick: Smoking’s Effect on Our Biological Clock
August 10, 2023
Irfan Rahman, Ph.D.
Irfan Rahman, Ph.D., an NIEHS grant recipient at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the development of chronic inflammatory lung diseases.
Sniffing Out Signs of Neurodegeneration
May 9, 2023
Honglei Chen, Ph.D.
Honglei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., a NIEHS grantee at Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine, studies how the interplay between environmental factors and those early symptoms might shape disease development.
Enhancing Remediation Technology to Clean Up Contaminants
March 23, 2023
Upal Ghosh, Ph.D.
By exploring how chemical contaminants move through the environment and affect aquatic food webs, Upal Ghosh, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), aims to develop and implement technologies to help ecosystems recover from pollution.
Linking Early Life Exposures with Lifelong Health
February 24, 2023
Abby Fleisch, M.D., M.P.H.
NIEHS grantee Abby Fleisch, M.D., M.P.H., studies how exposure to environmental pollutants early in life can harm health as we age.