Environmental Health Science
Environmental Health Science Faculty News and Grant Successes
2020 CHHE Outstanding Member Award Congratulations to Drs. Michael Bereman and Mike Cowley for being selected to receive the 2020 Center for Human Health and Environment Outstanding Member Award. This award is given in recognition of their outstanding contributions to […]
Center for Human Health and the Environment Receives $7.6M Funding Renewal
The NIEHS will continue to fund the center’s work to understand how human health is impacted by environmental factors for another five years.
NC State Researchers to Invite Fayetteville-Area Residents for GenX, PFAS Study
Researchers with North Carolina State University’s GenX exposure study will be inviting a limited number of residents from Fayetteville’s Gray’s Creek area whose wells have been tested for GenX to participate in water, blood and urine testing for the presence…
Researchers Identify Promising Proteins for Diagnostic, Prognostic Use in ALS
Researchers have identified proteins that may be useful in both earlier diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and in more accurate disease prognosis.
Researchers Explore The Link Between Environment, Genes And Health
NC State’s Center for Human Health and the Environment hosted its second annual symposium focused on epigenetics, environment and human health.
Researchers Receive Grant to Study GenX Exposure in New Hanover County Residents
NC State researchers will lead study on GenX exposure in New Hanover County residents
NC State and UNC Researchers Find New Clues to ALS Causes and Cures
NC State and UNC researchers are teaming up to reverse TDP-43 protein aggregation, a hallmark of degenerative diseases like ALS.
Early Lead Exposure Affects Gene Expression Throughout Life
A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University biologists Cathrine Hoyo and Randy Jirtle have found links between lead exposure in children and epigenetic alterations in regulatory regions of genes that are imprinted and known to be critical in growth regulation and brain development.