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Ilona Jaspers, PhD
Ilona Jaspers, PhD
Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology
Director
Curriculum in Toxicology
Deputy Director
Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology
Ilona Jaspers is a professor with more than 15 years of experience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in the effects of ambient air pollutants on respiratory immune disfunction.
Jaspers has established several human in vitro and clinical in vivo models to determine the adverse health effects induced by pollutant exposures. As the deputy director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, Jaspers collaborates extensively with investigators from UNC and the U.S. Environmental Protection agency to conduct translational studies related to air pollution health effects.
Jaspers is also the director of the Curriculum in Toxicology, overseeing the training and mentoring of masters and doctoral students as well as postdoctoral fellows.
Ilona Jaspers in the Gillings news
- Fourth-generation vaping devices increase risk to immune cells
- Communicating for Health Impact Lab to build upon UNC legacy of health communication work
- Researchers receive $900K+ in grants to investigate links between arsenic exposure, COVID-19 risk
- UNC launches new Institute for Environmental Health Solutions
Honors and Awards
Young Investigator Award2004, Inhalation Specialty Section of the Society Of Toxicology
Early Career Award in Inhalation Toxicology2003, American Chemistry Council
Young Investigator Award1998, The Oxygen Society
Representative Courses
Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology
Education
BS, Biology, Seton Hall University, 1992
MS, Environmental Health Sciences, New York University Medical Center, 1994
PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, New York University Medical Center, 1997
