June 2023| Center for Human Health and the Environment

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CHHE Spring 2023 Mini-retreat

The spring mini-retreat took place on May 24, 2023 at the Transfer Co. Food Hall. We celebrated the successes of CHHE members, discussed plans for next year and reconnected.

Symposium on Quantitative Methods in Life Sciences

Numerous researchers in precision medicine and environmental health gathered at the NC Biotechnology Center on May 8, 2023 for a symposium on QMLS. The meeting was organized by a committee including CHHE members Fred Wright and Yi-Hui Zhou and it was co-sponsored by several NC State groups including the CHHE and RTI International. Featured keynote speakers included Geoffrey Ginsburg, Chief Scientific Officer of the All of Us Initiative, and Russell Thomas, Director of EPA’s Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure.

New Data Management Consultant David Wright

CHHE is happy to provide a new resource for CHHE members: data management consulting. Do you need help figuring out how to store your data and files so you can find them again? Do you need to identify a schema for reporting data and meta data? Want some help sorting out what should go in your data management plan? David Wright, drwright3@ncsu.edu, can help you get you and your files organized. Feel free to reach out to him to schedule a zoom meeting. David has been helping the GenX Study team get their data organized and it's been great.

RIG and Core Updates

CHHE Pulmonary Research Interest Group Mini-symposium

The Pulmonary RIG held an excellent research mini symposium in April with a keynote entitled “New Approach Methodologies in Inhalation Toxicology” delivered by Nicole Kleinstreuer from NIEHS. There were also graduate student research talks by Jeffrey Shipman from Sivaraman Lab at NCCU, Will Murray from Sousan Lab at ECU and Logan Tisch from Bonner Lab at NCSU.

Kudos

Detlef Knappe recently won the 2023 Borchardt-Glysson Water Treatment Innovation Award at the Michigan-based Borchardt Conference. The award recognizes engineers, scientists, public health specialists and students in applied research and real-life experience in environmental engineering and water utility operations. Dr. Knappe also gave a lecture at the conference on PFAS and other unregulated contaminants in the Cape Fear River Watershed of North Carolina including community impacts and interventions to reduce human exposure. Article

Reminders

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“Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30ES025128. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

Publications citing the Center grant in the acknowledgements of a manuscript and in the deposit of the manuscript in NIEMS are the currency for the P30 renewal!

CHHE Resources and Facilities Page for NIH Grants is available on the CHHE website .

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