ITEHP PhD student, Kate Morton, won the Irwin Fridovich Young Investigator Award (one of the top two scored abstracts/presentations at the 2024 meeting of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine). Irwin Fridovich was a Duke biochemist famous for discovering and describing the important antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase. Her talk […]
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Friday, September 20, 2024 | Grainger Hall (9 Circuit Drive) | Field Auditorium (room 1112) Duke Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC Please join us for flash talks from our Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health faculty! This event is *FREE* to attend and open to all. Registration is required (see registration […]
Join us on Thursday, April 4, 2024, for our Spring Symposium: Environmental Exposures and Kidney Health! In this symposium, speakers across multiple disciplines will discuss population health studies, animal models, and chemical exposures as they relate to kidney diseases. This symposium is free and open to all, but registration is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our speaker this Friday, November 3, is Dr. Andrew Whitehead from UC Davis. We be in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, on Duke’s West Campus, for his talk from 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm. Please join us! Dr. Whitehead will be speaking about “The Solution to Pollution is … Evolution? The Genomic Basis of Rapid Adaptation in Killfish.” The abstract […]
A friendly reminder about the upcoming Friday, October 27, UPEH/ITEHP Seminar from 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm in Love Auditorium, LSRC B101, on Duke’s West Campus. Laura Maurer, PhD, MPH, will be speaking about “Applying toxicological data to regulatory decision making.” Dr. Maurer was postdoc in the Nicholas School from […]
Please join us on Friday, October 20, at 12:00 pm in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, to hear Dr. Robert Tighe speak about “Links between pulmonary macrophage function and environmental exposures.” Dr. Tighe is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine within the Pulmonary, Allergy and […]
Please join us on Friday, October 13, at 12:00 pm in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, to hear Dr. Chris Kassotis speak about “Mechanisms of adipogenic activity of environmental contaminants and mixture.” Dr. Kassotis is currently an NRSA postdoctoral research fellow in the Nicholas School of the Environment. He works in […]