The research of three ITEHP faculty – Drs. Heather Stapleton, Jim Zhang, and Rich Di Giulio – are featured in the Fall 2021 issue of Duke Environment Magazine as breakthroughs in the field of environmental and human health. Their vital work is paving the way for healthier futures. Read the […]
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Kirsten Overdahl successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled, “Characterizing Exposures and In Vitro Effects of Azobenzene Disperse Dyes in the Indoor Environment”, on October 27, 2021. Kirsten was co-advised during her time at Duke by P. Lee Ferguson, PhD, and Heather Stapleton, PhD. Having earned her PhD in Environment and […]
We invite HBCU students and alumni interested in ITEHP to The Duke University IDEALS Office HBCU Recruitment Event this Thursday, September 23, 2021, from 4-6 pm Eastern! This virtual event will introduce talented prospective applicants to Duke School of Medicine PhD programs and support mechanisms. (Being interdisciplinary in nature, ITEHP […]
Larisa Gearhart-Serna presented her PhD dissertation defense, “Investigation of the Role of Environmental Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Breast Cancer”, on July 19, 2021. Having successfully defended and earning her PhD in Pathology and her ITEHP certificate, Dr. Gearhart-Serna is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Feinberg […]
Marissa Guttenberg, rising fourth-year ITEHP student, recently was selected for the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Science Communications Training Award. This award is the result of a new collaboration between SOT and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, focusing on enhancing SOT members’ ability to effectively […]
Reflecting on Earth Day 2021, it is important to celebrate and protect not just the ground beneath our feet, but also the air that we breathe. “We Are What We Breathe” is the theme of a timely article from the Duke University School Medicine’s Magnify Magazine, discussing the health effects […]
Two ITEHP students recently defended their dissertations: Matthew Ruis “Using in vitro and in vivo Placental Models to Investigate the Localization of Brominated Flame Retardants and Implications for Thyroid Hormone Homeostasis” Advisor: Heather Stapleton Rose Schrott “The Effects of Cannabis sativa on the Sperm Epigenome” Advisor: Susan Murphy Congratulations, Matthew […]
The Graduate School just launched a new interactive guide to help students better understand the options, resources, and processes for addressing concerns of harassment, discrimination, and related problems. This resource is based on the amazing work that ITEHP student, Kirsten Overdahl, completed in Summer 2020, where she developed an interactive […]
Tess Leuthner, sixth-year ITEHP student in the Meyer lab, has been selected by The Graduate School to receive the 2021 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring. A committee of graduate deans, faculty, and graduate students selected Leuthner from a highly competitive pool of nominees to receive this award, recognizing her […]
The Toxicology & Environmental Health Spring 2021 Seminar Series starts this Thursday, January 14th, at 12:00 pm Eastern Time! Our post-doc alum, Kathleen Hershberger, PhD – now at Grinnell College – will be kicking off the series with her talk, “Persistent mitochondrial and epigenetic effects of early-life arsenic exposure in C. […]
The flame retardant research of Heather Stapleton, ITEHP faculty, was recently featured in a New York Times parenting article. The article, the final installment in a three-part series exploring some of the most dangerous toxins found in the average American home, discusses the prevalence and impact of flame retardants in […]
As a member of the Bass Connections team “Bioremediation of Plastic Pollution to Conserve Marine Biodiversity,” Zoie Diana, ITEHP student and PhD student in Marine Science & Conservation, and her colleagues recently published an article entitled, “Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution” in Environment International. This article reviewed 52 […]
Rose Schrott, ITEHP trainee, received the First Place Award for Trainee Talks on November 9th for her presentation at the Genetics and Environmental Mutagenesis Society of North Carolina’s (GEMS-NC) Fall 2020 Meeting! Her winning presentation was entitled “Let’s Be Blunt: Paternal Cannabis Smoke Extract Exposure in Rats Induces Heritable Epigenetic […]
Donald P. McDonnell, PhD, Glaxo-Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology in the School of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Professor in Medicine, and ITEHP faculty, was recently recognized with this year’s Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Science by Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast […]
ITEHP faculty member, William Pan, DrPH, was nominated by parties and stakeholders of the MINAMATA Convention on Mercury, an international treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury, to serve on a panel of experts that will draft guidelines for monitoring global mercury […]