Penn Almanac * April 23, 2019 * vol 65 * Issue 32 The Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has given Trevor Penning, the Thelma Brown and Henry Charles Molinoff Professor of Pharmacology and the director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, the 2019 Founders’ Award. Dr. Penning will […]
CEET Investigator Receives Distinguished CHEST Educator (DCE) Designation
by Mary Webster
November 13, 2017 4:45 pm
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 […]
CEET Member Receives Prestigious American Chemical Society/Division of Chemical Toxicology Award
by Mary Webster
August 28, 2017 5:06 pm
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 […]
Paper by CEET investigator’s lab a “Most Read Article” in ACS publication
by Mary Webster
July 27, 2017 11:49 am
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) 11-Oxoeicosatetraenoic Acid Is a Cyclooxygenase-2/15-Hydroxyprostaglandin Dehydrogenase-Derived Antiproliferative Eicosanoid Xiaojing Liu, Suhong Zhang, Jasbir S. Arora, Nathaniel W. Snyder, Sumit J. Shah, Ian A. Blair DOI: 10.1021/tx200336f
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.
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. Read more…
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. […]
University of Pennsylvania Almanac April 25, 2017, Volume 63, No. 32 Professor Richard (Rich) Pepino, lecturer in Earth & Environmental Science (EES), School of Arts & Sciences and Deputy Director, Community Outreach & Engagement Core, Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), Perelman School of Medicine, and his partners in the School District of Philadelphia […]
Health concerns prompt calls to end production and use of deadly substance in the U.S. and beyond Read full article in Chemical and Engineering News
5 questions: Your exposure to cancer risk factors in Philly could be killing you
by Mary Webster
February 6, 2017 8:59 am
Dr. Marilyn Howarth, director of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core for Penn’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, has been working local communities to determine their exposomes and help them figure out what to do about it. Sandy Bauers/ The Philadelphia Inquirer / February 3, 2017 Read full article from the Philadelphia Inquirer […]
COEC Director Participates in Lead and Environmental Policy Panel Discussion
by Community Engagement Core
August 2, 2016 9:49 am
On Wednesday, July 27th, the CEET supported the Fels Policy Research Initiative by providing science expertise and a research perspective for their interactive panel discussion on Lead and environmental policy. The panelists contributing to this discussion were our COEC Director Dr. Marilyn Howarth, environmental journalist for The Guardian Oliver Milman, and Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee. […]
CEET Hydraulic Fracturing Study Published in PLOS ONE
by Community Engagement Core
July 16, 2015 12:01 pm
The CEET announced the publication of its collaborative research study on the link between hydraulic fracturing and hospitalization rates in the Marcellus Shale region, in PLOS ONE on Wednesday July 15th. Over the past ten years in the United States, hydraulic fracturing has experienced a meteoric increase. Due to substantial increases in well drilling the potential for air […]
NIH Awards $8 Million Renewal to Penn Medicine’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
by Mary Webster
May 1, 2015 10:24 am
Penn Medicine News April 30,2015 PHILADELPHIA – The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has renewed its funding to the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, for the next five years. This grant will continue CEET’s […]
Do people still care about the environment? Is Earth Day still relevant? We no longer see thousands of protestors in the street like we did in the 70’s during the first few Earth Days. Perhaps in this digitally connected time, people show that they care differently. Penn’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology researches environmental […]
Greenfest 2014: What questions should our CEET researchers be asking about environmental health?
by Adrian Hoppel
February 12, 2015 11:21 am
One of the key missions of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core is to create multidirectional communication between community members and CEET researchers to integrate community concerns into research questions. To evaluate how well we are accomplishing our mission we attended Greenfest 2014 – Philadelphia’s largest environmental festival. The Clean Air Council, an active partner […]
How can GAMP & UPenn partner with local neighborhoods to understand Philly’s Air Monitoring Plan?
by Adrian Hoppel
September 8, 2014 2:02 pm
Project: Our COEC has been working with Philadelphia Air Management Services (AMS) as they expand their monitoring network for air quality (AQ) in South Philadelphia. How did we get involved? Our CEET summer research program entitled Short-Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) for undergraduates arranged to incorporate this air monitoring initiative into the curriculum of […]
STEER Student Oscar Serpell’s Work with GIS and the Lancaster Community
by Adrian Hoppel
July 25, 2014 11:17 am
STEER The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) of the University of Pennsylvania has received an NIEHS award for summer internships for selected undergraduate students (the Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER). The program includes ten weeks of summer activities including lectures and field trips that expose students to the field of environmental […]
Researchers Receive Grant Driven by Community Concerns Researchers from the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology have recently been awarded a $10 million grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study asbestos exposure pathways that lead to mesothelioma, the bioremediation of this hazardous material, and mechanisms that lead to asbestos-related diseases. […]
May is Asthma Awareness Month! We are going to highlight the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) and the Lung and Airway Disease Affinity Group and its work on asthma with Dr. Reynold Panettieri Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) The Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC) focuses on identifying important research questions that can […]
Welcome to the CEET Blog! CEET marshals excellence in basic, translational, patient-oriented and population-based research to facilitate an integrative approach to environmental health and medicine. We are committed to being a regional resource and use the research to improve the environmental health of the public. On our blog, we will be highlighting the research from […]
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