Ilona Jaspers, PhD
About
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
- Researchers find e-cigarette use disrupts nasal microbiome
- Researchers link early-life exposure to wildfire smoke with early use of upper respiratory medication
- 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
Honors and Awards
Young Investigator Award
2004, Inhalation Specialty Section of the Society Of Toxicology
Early Career Award in Inhalation Toxicology
2003, American Chemistry Council
Young Investigator Award
1998, 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
