Backed by a $26 million federal grant, researchers at three Michigan universities, a leading health care system, and a state agency will continue a long-term study of how exposure to environmental factors during pregnancy and early childhood can impact health for a lifetime.
Jackie Goodrich, research associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, discusses the World Health Organization's recent decision to classify the artificial sweetener as possibly carcinogenic while also maintaining the current recommendation of safe daily intake.
A team of University of Michigan researchers from the School of Public Health DoGoodS-Pi Environmental Epigenetics Lab and Michigan Medicine are working to understand how behaviors and environments during pregnancy can cause changes to the way genes work in offspring. This emerging field is known as toxicoepigenetics.
Four University of Michigan School of Public Health faculty and students were recognized by the Society of Toxicology (SOT) at the SOT Annual Meeting March 10-14, 2019.
Dana Dolinoy, NSF International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, received the 2018 Achievement Award from the Society of Toxicology for her work to understand how nutritional and environmental factors influence epigenetic gene regulation, and how early life exposures can lead to disease later in life.