2023 Awards
Empowering Eastwick: A Community-Based Approach to Addressing Eco-Anxiety
Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH
Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing
Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine
The Impact of Obesity on Immunometabolic Dysregulation in Asthma
Sarah Henrickson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
High Resolution Mutagen Adduct Signature Mapping Using Nanopore Sequencing
Jeffrey Field, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
Uncovering the Role of Cytokines During Brain Development
Yeong Shin Yim, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
2022 Awards
Microcystins in the Blood of Mothers of Biliary Atresia Patients
Rebecca Wells, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
The Transcriptomic and Lipidomic Landscape of Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma In Situ
John Seykora, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology
Advanced Lung-on-a-Chip: A Tissue Engineered Microphysiological Model to Investigate Flavored E-cigarette-induced Airway Disease
Pouria Fattahi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Pennsylvania
2021 Awards
Thea Golden, PharmD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Interaction between Sleep Disruption and Autism Genes in Neuronal Plasticity and Behavior
Michael Hart, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Neurologic Dysfunction in a Pediatric Porcine Model of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
David Jang, MD, MSc, FACMT
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Graphene Sensor System for Detection of SARS
Charlie Johnson, PhD
Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Protein Kinase C Epsilon and Environmental Carcinogenesis
Marcelo Gabriel Kazanietz, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
2020 Awards
Todd Kilbaugh, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Identification of Natural Products with Biliary Toxicity
Rebecca Wells, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
The Impact of Smoke Exposure on SARS
Blanca Himes, PhD
Associate Professor of Informatics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Evaluating the Impact of Structural Repairs on Environmental Allergens in the Homes of Children with Asthma in West Philadelphia
Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2019 Awards
Understanding Community Needs and Community Dynamics in the Post-remediation phase
Frances K. Barg, PhD
Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
The Role of Epigenetics and Enhancers in Ultraviolet Radiation (UVR) – Induced Carcinogenesis
Brian C. Capell, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Genetics
The Effects of Environmental Antibiotic Exposure on Epigenetic Regulation in the Brain
Erica Korb, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Decoding Interactions between Glyphosate, the Intestinal Microbiome, and Intestinal Inflammation
Maayan Levy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Food-derived Alpha-synuclein as a Trigger of Parkinson’s Disease Pathology
Kelvin Luk, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
2018 Awards
CHIRP The Chester Healthy Infant Research-to-Action Partnership
George Gerton, PhD (PI)
Research Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Co-Investigators
Mary Regina Boland, MA, MPhil, PhD
Assistant Professor of Informatics
Heather H. Burris, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Marilyn Howarth, MD, FACOEM
Director, CEET Community Engagement Core
Mechanisms of the cytoprotective response to tobacco and its metabolites in esophageal epithelia
Jonathan P. Katz, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Shift work induced injury to the hippocampus
Nirinjini Naidoo Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology
Sara Pinney, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Is the Impact of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds on Metabolism Confounded by the Molecular Clock?
Aalim Weljie, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics
2017
Identifying the Role of Tobacco Toxicants in Awakening Oncogene Expressing Cells from Dormancy
David Feldser, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology
Ileana Perez-Rodriguez, PhD
Assistant Professor Earth & Environmental Sciences
Reto Giere, PhD
Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Estrogens and Malignant Mesothelioma (2017)
Trevor M. Penning, PhD
Professor of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics
Juliette A. Aka, PhD,
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
Early Childhood Lead Exposure, Sleep Disturbance, and Adolescent Metabolic Disturbances (2017)
Jianghong Liu, PhD, FAAN
Associate Professor, Schools of Nursing and Medicine
2016
Defining sites of BPDE-adduct formation and associated breaks across the human genome
Eric J. Brown, PhD
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology
Graphene-aptamer chemical sensors to detect toxins in water
A.T. Charlie Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director, Nano/Bio Interface Center
Human exposure biomarkers to oil spills
Clementina Mesaros, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics
Trevor M. Penning, PhD
Professor of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics
Role of inflammation in BPA induced ß-cell defects in offspring
Rebecca Simmons, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Biomarkers of exposure to “Libby” asbestos
Edward Emmett, MD, MS
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Creation of a High Throughput Toxicology Platform and its Application to Unconventional Gas Drilling Waste
Jeffrey Field, Ph.D.
Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
Particulate Matter Pollution in Philadelphia and its Association with Asthma Exacerbations (2017)
Blanca Himes, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
p53-mediated Molecular Recycling and Environmental Carcinogens Exposure
Anil K. Rustgi, MD
T. Grier Miller Professor of Medicine & Genetics
Perelman School of Medicine
Air Pollution, Asthma & Circadian Clocks
Carsten Skarke, MD
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
2015
Developmental Lead Exposure: Mechanisms of Sleep and Metabolic Disturbances
Rebecca Simmons, MD
Hallam Hurt Professor Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Perelman School of Medicine
Sigrid Veasey, MD
Professor Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D (PI)
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor
Departments of Genetics and Biology
Identification of Environmental Toxicants that Trigger Digestive and Liver Disease
Michael Pack, MD
Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
Role of Zip8 in Cadmium (Cd) Uptake and Hypertension
Yanqing (Anna) Gong, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
Mechanism and Function of Sleep Following Ultraviolet Radiation Induced Injury
David M. Raizen, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Perelman School of Medicine
Defining HPHCs Toxicity Thresholds by the Esophageal 3D Organoids System
Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
Role-of-S-nitrosylation-in-Asthma-Pathophysiology
Harry Ischiropoulos, PhD
Research Professor of Pediatrics
Neal Gould, PhD
CEET Mentored Scientist Transition Award (MSTA) Recpient
