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CEET in the News
A New Way to Look at Lung Cancer and Tobacco Carcinogens
Penn Researchers Find New Links in Critical Chemical Pathway
Dr. Kevin Osterhoudt, a member of the CEET Community Outreach and Education Core, has been appointed to the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) with a term beginning July 1, 2008.
The Committee on Environmental Health advises the AAP on issues pertaining to environmental health and toxic exposure. Committee policy statements address such issues as radiation disasters, air pollution, lead screening, and secondhand smoke. The committee supports legislative initiatives designed to protect the health of the fetus, infant, and child from debilitating or hazardous environmental agents.
Partnership Between University of Pennsylvania and Decatur Community Association Receives Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Award
Edward Emmett, MD, Deputy Director of the CEET and Director of the CEET Community Outreach and Education Core, accepts the award from the Decatur Community Association.
Penn Medicine News Release, September 14, 2007
Penn School of Medicine Receives $2.3 Million to Study Biological Indicators of Exposure to Cigarette Smoke
Genes, Environment and Health Initiative Invests In Genetic Studies, Environmental Monitoring Technologies
Studies Focus on Common Conditions, Personal Environmental Exposures
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the first projects to be funded as part of the Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI), a unique collaboration between geneticists and environmental scientists. Dr. Ian A. Blair, Co-Director of the CEET Oxidative Stress and Oxidative Stress Injury Core, was successful in obtaining a grant in the "Biological Response Indicators of Environmental Stress" to study "Exposure and Biological Response Biomarkers of Cigarette Smoke".
Governor Rendell Announces $17 Million Investment to Promote Health Research
The University of Pennsylvania – in association with the Pennsylvania State University Medical College and Lincoln University – will receive $4.2 million to study gene-environment interactions that increase the risk of lung cancer in African American and Caucasian smokers and non-smokers. The study will be conducted under the Gene-Environmental Initiative of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, or CEET.
Dr. Ted Emmett, CEET Deputy Director and Director of the Community Outreach and Education Core, is featured for his work with the Little Hocking community and the problem of perfluorooctanoic acid in their water supply.
BEYOND THE BENCH
Research Helps Clean Up A Water SupplyNIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives
VOLUME 115 | NUMBER 3 | March 2007
Drs. Penning and Emmett attend the NIEHS Center Directors Meeting in Galveston, TX
Focus is on Respiratory Disease and Cancer.
Asthma can be aggravated by urban living conditions
By Dr. Andrea Apter, CEET Invesigator
The Philadelphia Tribune, October 15, 2006
NIH Awards $4 Million to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to
Establish a Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
First Environmental Health Sciences Center in the Commonwealth
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