Research

Primary Faculty

Cory-Slechta Lab - Defining the impact of environmental chemicals (e.g., metals and air pollution) on brain development and behavior, with emphasis on attributable risk to neurodevelopmental disorders

Elder Lab - Toxicology of inhaled particulate matter on the lung, cardiovascular, and central nervous systems

Korfmacher Lab - Community engagement, policy, and reporting of research results around environmental health (e.g. healthy housing, lead, microplastics, air quality)

Lawrence Lab - Defining the impact of environmental exposures on immune system development and function, with emphasis on how early life exposures shape health and disease later in life

Markowitz Lab - Developing and coordinating a wide variety of science education and outreach programs for students (elementary through high school), teachers, and the general community

Irfan Rahman Lab - Environmental lung diseases COPD and IPF pathogenesis and therapeutic targets: effects of lung cellular mitochondrial dysfunction, senescence, and molecular clock

Rand Lab - Cellular and molecular mechanisms of methylmercury metabolism and toxicity in development of neural and muscular systems using invertebrate, mammalian and human models

Sarkar Lab -  Develop a research program concentrating on identifying genetic modifiers of environmental factors in disease etiology using a combination of Drosophila genetics, cell culture, and rodent models

Sobolewski Lab - Neurotoxicology, behavioral analysis, endocrine-epigenetic mechanisms, cumulative risk

Susiarjo Lab - Exploring the mechanisms underlying gene-environment interactions in pregnancy; exploring the role of tryptophan catabolism in pregnancy and on the metabolic health of mother and offspring

Jacqueline Williams Lab - Discovering the effects of high (therapeutic) and low (environmentally-relevant) doses of radiation and their interactions with other toxic elements, such as commonly encountered infections, and better understanding differential effects of radiation in adults versus children

Secondary Faculty

Croft Lab -  Environmental epidemiology on the effect of air pollution on respiratory health

Finkelstein Lab -  Delineating the role of alveolar epithelium in modulating the pulmonary injury response to physiological and toxicological stimuli, including oxidant induced signaling in the pulmonary epithelium and macrophages, and epithelial production of mediators that regulate inflammatory functions of macrophages

Georas Lab - Defining molecular pathways by which inhaled allergens and particulates activate lung mucosal immunity

Gill Lab - Microbial pathogens and the impact of human microbial flora on human health and disease

Hopke Lab - Chemical characterization of ambient aerosol samples; source/receptor relationships for ambient air pollutants; Indoor air quality; Exposure and risk assessment

Jusko Lab - Defining the impact of environmental toxicants on maternal and child health, with a focus on persistent organic pollutants (PCBs and PFAS), metals, and their mixtures, and immune system development and function

Mariani Lab - Genetic and environmental susceptibility to developmental and infectious lung injury

Martina Lab - Environmental Medicine and Medical Ecology; Public Health implications of endocrine disrupting compounds, social determinants of academic success, and program evaluation

Richard Miller Lab - Determining the impact of maternal stress and other maternal factors on the birth outcomes and in the children

Nacca Lab - Medical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine education, with interest in novel psychoactive substances and adulterated drugs of abuse

Onukwufor Lab - Elucidate the molecular mechanisms of divalent metal neurotoxicity and mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

O'Reilly Lab - Defining how gene environment interactions shape alveolar lung development and the risk for lung disease over the lifespan

Pryhuber Lab - Multiple molecular modality identification of lung cell types, subtypes and states in health and disease with focus on diseases of children

Rich Lab - Cardiovascular, respiratory, and pregnancy health effects of exposure to environmental agents, including ambient air pollution; accountability studies

Robert Lab - Experimental platform using the amphibian Xenopus for research in immunotoxicology, fundamental and medical immunology

Tacci Lab

Thurston Lab - Environmental health applications, models for multiple outcomes, multiple exposure models, measurement error, Bayesian inference

Watson Lab - Investigating the influence of exposures (environmental, dietary, dental materials) on oral health and neurodevelopment in children

Woeller Lab - Investigating how environmental exposures influence molecular pathways driving inflammation and fibrosis in and around the eye

Wyatt Lab - Refugee community-led environmental research involving healthy choices, eating local fish, and improvement of air quality in kitchens in multifamily dwellings

vanWijngaarden Lab - Environmental and nutritional influences on cognitive and neurodevelopmental outcomes