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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UNC-SRP researchers introduce a new approach to assess arsenic in drinking water
A study emerging from the labs of SRP researchers Rebecca Fry and Marc Serre is featured in the January 2012 issue of Environment International. "Arsenic in North Carolina: Public Health Implications" introduces a new approach to assess spatial and temporal trends of arsenic in drinking water and may lead to the implementation of enhanced monitoring programs that target regions of concern in North Carolina.
The goal of this specific study was to identify populations at greatest risk of long-term health effects resulting from exposure to arsenic in drinking water. This study is part of a larger study being conducted in partnership between the UNC-SRP Research Translation Core (RTC) and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) to understand trends and patterns in well water contamination in North Carolina and is supported by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.
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Dr. Ivan Rusyn leads a cutting-edge environmental toxicity research lab with the UNC Superfund Research Program, which improves understanding
of the ways that exposures to certain chemicals lead to adverse health
effects, and was the first to report on the genetic regulation of gene
expression in the liver. Rusyn has served on a number of committees of
the National Academies of Science and the EPA Science Advisory Board
evaluating the health risks associated with trichloroethylene,
tetrachloroethylene, trichloroacetic acid and formaldehyde. However,
the series of steps that he took to get to this position in his career
began in a much different place and have since taken him around the
world.
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