GC-CPEH Deputy Director, Dr. Elaine Symanski's Metal Air Pollution Partnership Solutions project was highlighted in the June 2020 Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Newsletter by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Dr. Symanski with GC-CPEH members, Drs.…
"Epigenome environment interactions accelerate epigenomic aging and unlock metabolically restricted epigenetic reprogramming in adulthood."Treviño, L.S., Dong, J., Kaushal, A. et al. Nat Commun 11, 2316 (2020). GC-CPEH Director, Dr. Cheryl Walker's recent study published in Nature Communications shows how an early life chemical exposure can…
Environmental Factor, NIEHS's award-winning online newsletter, featured the work of center members and their environmental health studies launched after Hurricane Harvey.“ It was an impressive display of the science efforts and collaborations that quickly came together in response to Hurricane Harvey,”…
GC-CPEH member, Dr. Farrah Kheradmand’s study raises health concerns about the use of electronic cigarettes. "The opposing views on the safety of e-cigarettes prompted one of my graduate students, Matthew Madison, to investigate the effects of chronic exposure to e-cigarette…
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KPRC NBC 2 Newscast: Harvey, 2 years later KHOU CBS 11 Newscast: Harvey 2 years later (This segment also aired in Tyler and Beaumont, TX) KTRH NewsRadio 740 Broadcast: Baylor College of Medicine hosts Harvey symposium KTRK ABC 13 Online: Stress and pesticides: Health consequences emerging 2 years…
Precision Environmental Health: Integrating Environmental Sciences, Genomics, and Data Science to Advance Human Health. This conference focuses on interdisciplinary bioscience and will include talks from internationally recognized experts in the broad area of environmental health sciences. Confirmed speakers include: Andrea…
This symposium will highlight selected research and organizational activities that occurred during and after the storm, and provide an update on key milestones and data obtained from associated disaster research response activities with the local community and other stakeholders. Date:…
Learn more about how researchers from UTHealth-School of Public Health, Texas A&M University and Oregon State University, researchers from the Baylor Environmental Health Service teamed up on a project to monitor chemical exposure in communities affected by Hurricane Harvey. As…
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The Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health (GC-CPEH), a multimillion dollar Texas Medical Center effort jointly led by Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, has been designated as a…
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