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The Future of Environmental Health Science: Featuring NIEHS-Funded Early Career Investigators
SOT Annual Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland
Tuesday, March 17
Chairperson(s): Vishal S. Vaidya, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, MA and Carol Shreffler, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
Sponsor: Career Resource and Development Committee
Endorsed by:
Education Committee
Mechanisms Specialty Section
Postdoctoral Assembly
Research Funding Committee
An essential element of the mission of the NIEHS is the support and career promotion of the future generation of exceptionally talented and creative new scientists who will push forward research in
understanding the impact of environmental exposures and human
health. Support through critical transition stages has been identified
as being particularly important in developing a cadre of talented
early career scientists. In response, the NIH and the NIEHS has
started the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES)
Award which is one of many initiatives that it has taken to provide
the funding for the research and career enhancement of scientists
during the transition from postdoctoral to faculty positions, and to
allow selected outstanding junior faculty to flourish. The ONES
scientists are expected to make a long term career commitment to
the environmental health sciences, and to bring innovative, ground
breaking research thinking to bear on the problems of how environmental
exposures affect human biology, human pathophysiology, and human disease. In the first three years, 21 awards have been
made and the NIEHS ONES program has become an important
showcase for the future leaders in environmental health sciences
research. Three ONES awardees have been chosen to present who
have had innovative publications in the first year of the award and
who display a broad spectrum of research in the environmental
health sciences. These exceptional scientists, who will present
cutting edge science at the interface of molecular toxicology and
environmental health sciences, are a model for junior faculty
attendees who are considering applying for these competitive but
highly rewarding grants.
- Endocrine Disruption of the Hypothalamic Signaling That Regulates Puberty, Heather B. Patisaul, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- Cellular Responses to CrVI Induced DNA Damage: Role for the Werner Syndrome Protein, Patricia Lynn Opresko, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Mechanisms of Pesticide-Induced Neurobehavioral Deficits: Relevance to ADHD, Jason R. Richardson, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
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