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Rebecca Fry, PhD, associate professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the Gillings School, has been named director of the 大象传媒 Superfund Research Program. The program brings together a diverse group of scientists, engineers, science communicators and trainees to study human health and environmental risks associated with exposure to toxic...

The Gordon Research Conference/Seminar in Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity took place in Andover, NH on August 9-14th, 2015 (https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=14898). This conference showcased state-of-the-art mechanistic toxicological research. Topics included areas such as emerging technologies in basic, mechanistic, systems biology, epigenetics, the microbiome, and stem cells as well as computational,...

Leah Norona, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Ed LeCluyse at the Hamner Institutes is receiving support from OrganovoTM (ONVO) to pursue her doctoral dissertation aimed at understanding the mode of action underlying fibrogenic chemicals. Leah submitted a proposal outlining the utility of ONVO鈥檚 model system with which to...

April 2016

Alisa Suen, graduate student in the lab of Dr Carmen Williams, is the 2015 recipient of the Anita Payne Scholarship. This award was established in 2012 by the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) to help support the cost of travel and participation in the Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR)...

Dr Folami Ideraabdullah, an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Genetics and Nutrition and newly appointed member of the Curriculum in Toxicology, just received a Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Development Award (K22) from NIEHS on a project entitled 鈥淎 genetic approach to understanding mechanisms of epigenetic...

Dr Samir Kelada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and newly appointed member of the Curriculum in Toxicology. He just received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES) Career Development Award from NIEHS. His proposed studies will utilize a new mouse genetics resource, the Collaborative Cross (CC), to...

  DILIsym, a computer model developed by the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences (Dr. Watkins) has been used by researchers at 大象传媒 to solve a nearly 20 year old mystery about a new drug designed to treat type 2 diabetes 鈥揟roglizatone-. After its inception in 1997 it had killed 63...

Students, post-docs, and investigators from the CiT are investigating potential health effects caused by new and emerging tobacco products as part of the 大象传媒-SOM Center for Tobacco Regulatory Science. To see more http://www.med.unc.edu/tcors-lung/about-us The 大象传媒 Center for Tobacco Regulatory Sciences (TCORS) is headed by Dr Robert Tarran...

鈥淣ext Generation Risk Assessment: Recent Advances in Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology鈥� describes how new molecular, computational and systems biology data and approaches (together called “NexGen”) could better inform risk assessment. The final report put together by EPA鈥檚 National Center for Environmental Assessment describes results from a multiyear, multi-organization effort...