• Events
  • News & Publicity
  • Publications
  • Contact CEET
Perelman School of Medicine
Header
  • Home
    • About the CEET
    • CEET Blog
    • Penn SRP Center
    • AKR Superfamily
  • Members & Themes
    • CEET Membership
    • Air Pollution & Lung Health (AP)
    • Environmental Exposures and Cancer (EC)
    • Windows-of-Susceptibility (WS)
    • Environmental Neuroscience (EN)
    • Community Engagement Core (CEC)
  • Cores
    • Core List
      • Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core (IHSFC)
      • Translational Biomarker Core
      • Exposure Biology Informatics Core (EBIC)
    • Service Request
    • Usage Summary
  • Training & Career Development
    • Summer Programs
    • Environmental Health Sciences Certificate Program
    • Training Grant in Environmental Health Sciences
    • Career Development Activities
  • Funding
    • CEET Mentored Scientist Transition Award (MSTA)
    • Pilot
    • NIH
    • ONES Award
  • Engagement
    • For Community Members
    • Environmental Health Education Programs
    • For Health Care Professionals
    • For Policy Makers
    • Community Engagement Core (CEC)
    • CEC Blog
    • PA General Assembly Environmental Health Legislative Watch
    • Contact CEC
  • Target Communities
    • West Philadelphia
    • South Philadelphia
    • Chester
      • Chester Environmental Partnership Presents:
    • Eastwick
    • Lancaster County
    • Northeast Pennsylvania Communities with Hydraulic Fracturing
    • Ambler

Pilot Project Recipents

2020 Awards

Zebrafish as an Age Susceptibility Platform for Evaluation of Mitochondrial Targeted Therapies for Toxicchemical Exposure

Todd Kilbaugh, MD (PI)

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and 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

Mechanisms by which in utero exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) programs the offspring to develop non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

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

Microbe-mineral Reactions Between Chemolithoautotrophic Bacteria and Asbestos Minerals: Exploring New Avenues for Reducing Exposure to Asbestos Fibers 


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

rustgi pic
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

Identification of Functionally Important Variants at Candidate Genes Associated with Pigmentation, DNA repair, and UV Exposure in Ethnically Diverse Africans


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

Pack Michael
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

 


© The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | University of Pennsylvania | Perelman School of Medicine