When residents of Stokes County, NC first reached out to the UNC SRP Community Engagement Core (CEC) with questions about their well water, the CEC and SRP investigators launched Well Empowered, a pilot study to assess the presence of toxic metals in private wells used for drinking water. Fast forward several years and after a... Read more »
“It’s so interesting to me that water can be clear and seem fine to drink yet there can actually be things in it that aren’t good for our health,” said Mikayla Armstrong, PhD, who until recently was a UNC SRP trainee in Project 5. Armstrong’s interests led her along a pathway towards the intersection of... Read more »
Over fall break, 20 UNC graduate students, postdocs, and staff members from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, the Curriculum in Toxicology, and Environmental Medicine gathered on campus for two days of hands-on training with a real-word dataset. The PRogramming for Environmental HEalth And Toxicology (PREHEAT) Retreat was the result of a collaboration between... Read more »
UNC SRP was well represented at the 61st annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting held earlier this spring in San Diego, CA. “UNC SRP trainees were present in force at this year’s SOT meeting. They presented innovative research including solutions for chemical-induced disease, and novel methods to identify linkages between chemicals and disease in vulnerable... Read more »
A new study from Project 1 resulted in a recent publication exploring the mechanisms connecting inorganic arsenic (iAs) and diabetes. UNC SRP trainee and lead author Jenna Todero’s research is at the interface of environmental exposures, diabetes, and genomics, studying the relationship between chronic exposure to iAs, an environmental toxin recognized as a top priority... Read more »
To better understand this vulnerability, collaborative efforts within the UNC Superfund Research Program by Lauren Eaves, PhD, UNC SRP trainee, Julia Rager, PhD, Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) co-leader, Andrew George, PhD, Community Engagement Coordinator, and Rebecca Fry, PhD, UNC SRP Director, resulted in a recent publication and creation of the new publicly available... Read more »
Growing up in a picturesque environment dotted with some of the oldest rocks in Nigeria was inspiring for me as a young boy and motivated my later professional decisions. During my senior year in college, I was introduced to the field of applied geochemistry by my professor when he suggested the prevalence of cancer in... Read more »
Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena, PhD, UNC SRP Project 2 leader, and trainees were highlighted in a Recent Highlights article published by the National Institute of Health Office of Research Infrastructure Programs. Dr. Pardo Manuel de Villena speaks to the importance of reproducibility in research and reflects on rodent models as critical genetic tools in... Read more »
A recent study by Kathleen Gray, PhD, leader of the UNC SRP’s Community Engagement Core (CEC), and researchers from the University of Arizona Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center and the University of Kentucky Department of Preventative Medicine and Environmental Health, used toxic metals contamination of well water as the basis for exploring factors that influence... Read more »
A recent study led by Kun Lu, PhD, leader of the UNC SRP’s Project 3, and collaborators, developed a new methodology that could help provide more insights into the role of the gut microbiome, the trillions of microbes in the intestine, in arsenic-induced metabolic disorders such as diabetes. This study, recognized by the National Institute... Read more »
