Congratulations to Dr. Marilyn Howarth, Director of the CEET Community Outreach and Engagement Core, for receiving the 2018 Chester Environmental Partnership (CEP) Award. This year, five honorees were distinguished for their commitment to environmental stewardship and close partnership with the CEP.
Author Archive for Mary Webster
We are pleased to announce that the Director of our Center, Trevor Penning, PhD, has been appointed Senior Editor for Cancer Research in Population & Prevention Science
Anil Vachani, MD, FCCP, Director of the CEET Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, was awarded a Distinguished CHEST Educator (DCE) designation for 2017 by the American College of Chest Physicians. The DCE designation honors members that have shown great commitment, involvement, and leadership in CHEST education programs and activities, and recognizes their achievements and long-term contributions to the design and delivery of CHEST education.
Penn Medicine Pharmacologist Given Founders’ Award from American Chemical Society
Ian Blair, Director of the CEET Affinity Group in Oxidative Stress and Oxidative Stress Injury, Director of the CEET Translational Biomarker Core, and Director of the Penn Superfund Research and Training Program has won the 2017 Founders’ Award from the Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes Dr. Blair’s “outstanding contributions to the field of chemical toxicology,” in particular, his work on biomarkers, which identify people at risk for certain diseases, increasing chances of successful treatment.
The following article submitted by the lab of Ian Blair was selected by Chemical Research in Toxicology as a Most Read Article (most full-text article requests 2011-2017)
Trevor Penning, Director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, has been recognized as one of the most highly prolific authors for the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.
CEET Investigator Sara E. Pinney, MD (front row, 6th from the left), recipient of a CEET Mentored Scientist Transition Award, was recognized at the recent P30 Center Directors Meeting at Emory University for her outstanding presentation “Development Origins of Metabolic Disease Through Studies of In Utero Exposures in Humans and Mice.” Congratulations Sara!
Wharton Business Radio host Dan Loney interviews Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professors Sarah Tishkoff (CEET member) and Dorothy Roberts about their collaborative research on race and human genetic variation.
For more information and to listen to the interview…
An article from Environmental Health Perspectives explores how environmental exposures may influence age at menopause. Samantha Butts, MD, MSCE, an associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is quoted on evidence suggesting women who smoke begin menopause an average of 1–2 years earlier compared to nonsmokers.
Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, a member of the Gene-Environment Interactions Affinity Group of the CEET, was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. NAS election is considered one of the highest honors accorded an engineer or scientist in the United States.
Dr. Tishkoff is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology. She studies human genetic diversity, specifically that of African populations, blending field, lab and computational approaches. Her work has not only elucidated African population history but also how genetic variation affects traits such as disease susceptibility or ability to metabolize drugs.
Congratulations Sarah!
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