Join us for the next webinar in our series: Chemicals of Emerging Concern: Implications for Human Health

Moderator:

Russell (Rusty) Thomas, Ph.D., is the vice president and executive director at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. He spearheads the strategy driving Chemical Insights to be the leader in reducing or eliminating adverse human health impacts of chemical pollution in the environment and everyday life through research, communication, and the development of applications for safer working, living, and learning environments. Rusty brings over two decades of experience in computational toxicology and environmental health research to Chemical Insights

Speakers:

Sangita Choudhury, Ph.D., is the Gail Bruns Endowed Investigator in the Department of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She received her Ph.D. in Germany, where she investigated the mechanisms of antibody-mediated cardiomyocyte death. During her postdoctoral training, she studied the molecular mechanisms underlying heart failure and cardiac regeneration. Dr. Choudhury’s laboratory works at the intersection of human genetics, genomics, molecular biology, and medicine to understand how the human heart changes during development, aging, and disease.

Bevin Page Engelward, Ph.D., is Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, Director of the MIT Superfund Research Program, and Associate Chair of the MIT Faculty. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her doctoral degree in Molecular Toxicology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She joined the MIT faculty in 1997 and has been a Full Professor since 2014. Dr. Engelward’s research focuses on how genes and environmental factors influence susceptibility to DNA damage, mutations, and cancer. Her work spans fundamental research and technology development, including creation of the first mouse model in which cells harboring sequence rearrangements fluoresce, enabling studies of mutagenesis in vivo.

Jin-Ah Park, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Airway Biology in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research integrates airway epithelial cell biology, mechanobiology, and toxicology to understand how mechanical forces and environmental exposures affect airway epithelial function in health and disease. to airway injury and remodeling. Using human-relevant in vitro models of the airway, including air–liquid interface and organoid cultures of primary human bronchial epithelial cells, Dr. Park investigates how mechanical forces and inhaled environmental exposures alter airway epithelial function and contribute to airway injury and remodeling.

This webinar series highlights how our Center for Analytical & Exposure Science and Center for Toxicology & Human Health work together to identify, understand, and navigate emerging chemical risks in today’s world.

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