The UNC Superfund Research Program advances the scientific bases required to understand and reduce risks to human health associated with several of the highest priority chemicals regulated under the Superfund program, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), halogenated hydrocarbons, and heavy metals.
Our program comprises five integrated research projects (three biomedical and two non-biomedical) and four support cores, including two research support cores, a research translation core, and an administrative core. The UNC Superfund Research Program serves to conduct research, train new scientists and engineers familiar with interdisciplinary research, and carry our results to a broad and diverse audience of scientists, regulators, legislators and concerned citizens.
This program is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (#P42ES005948) |
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Rusyn appointed to national Committee on ToxicologyIvan Rusyn, MD, PhD, professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been appointed to the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on Toxicology.
The committee, part of NRC's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, oversees toxicology and risk assessment projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. Committee members provide oversight of the projects, help develop proposals for new studies and work to create partnerships with other relevant organizations.
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Biologist Rebecca Fry is passionate about helping children in other
countries -- a passion fueled by international educational opportunities
during high school and college where she lived with local families in
Brazil and Mexico. Then, as a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, she had
the chance to study the effects of prenatal arsenic exposure on gene
signaling in children in Thailand. Under a Superfund Research Program grant, she is studying children's health effects related to prenatal exposure to cadmium in North Carolina. Cadmium is a toxic metal that, like arsenic, poses a threat to children's health.
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UNC Superfund Research Program 
