Through highly integrated research, the UNC-CH SRP produces critical information for advancing cleanup methods to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals and protect human health. The center's non-biomedical research focuses on three major classes of chemicals - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), halogenated hydrocarbons, and heavy metals -- in three biomedical and two non-biomedical projects.
 
Research themes cross multiple projects and cores include:

• evaluating complex microbial communities in bioremediation systems; and,
  
• quantifying the chronic exposure and bioavailability of toxic compounds in environmental systems.
  

To learn more about the non-biomedical research projects supported by the UNC-CH SRP click on one of the projects listed in the tool bar on the left.

This research is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (#P42ES005948).