 | New NIEHS Director Rick Woychik will lead with innovationWoychik will lead research into environmental influences on human health and serve as director of the National Toxicology Program. |
| National Academies asks experts to explore aging, environment interplayAs one ages, the body responds differently to chemicals in the environment; in turn, exposures — even in early life — affect aging processes. |
 | COVID-19 disparities tackled by National Institutes of HealthNIEHS encourages grant recipients to participate in the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations initiative. |
NIEHS and Canadian scientists discover that cancer cells with mutated BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes died when they lacked a protein called APE2. NIEHS will coordinate the standardization of National Institutes of Health analysis methods for metabolic breakdown products. The NIEHS advisory board discussed a new effort to tackle common diseases and approved a proposal to expand environmental health education. The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods spotlighted federal efforts to use new research approaches. NIEHS grantees study pet dogs to better understand how human exposure to everyday chemicals may lead to cancer and other conditions. NIEHS grant recipients and staff make connections between chemical exposures and latent disease risk. Seventeen high-scoring postdoctoral fellows from NIEHS win travel funds in the annual National Institutes of Health research contest. The Duke University professor’s Text Recycling Research Project aims to help scientists and editors deal with the ambiguity. Amid the global pandemic, the annual federal employee food drive innovates to serve record numbers of hungry people. | New initiative encourages research to transform treatment and prevention of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a devastating disease. NIEHS-funded researchers find that pregnant women who lived close to wells in rural areas were more likely to have smaller babies. The Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention celebrates work of institute scientists at annual meeting. Jason West described how unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could reduce air quality and intensify hurricanes. New findings from the Agricultural Health Study suggest exposure to certain pesticides may increase risk of renal cell carcinoma. Members of the Botanical Safety Consortium discussed the challenges of studying how plant-based diet supplements may affect health. Young workers in Egypt who apply pesticides adopted safer practices after low-cost intervention. Bingham’s leadership in occupational safety and Smith’s groundbreaking research into indoor air pollution inspired people around the world. |
Intramural papers of the month |
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