Category: research highlights

Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease

Dr. Joanna Burger’s Biographical Profile Featured in December 2015 Issue of Risk Analysis

Dr. Joanna Burger, member of CEED and Co-Director of CEED Community Outreach and Engagement Center, has been featured in the December 2015 issue of Risk Analysis. Click the link below to read the complete article. Joanna Burger: Respect for All Living Things By Michael Greenberg and Karen Lowrie


February 5, 2016 0

Dr. Robert Laumbach: Environmental Degradation is Ravaging Minority Communities – Salon.com Article

CEED Community Outreach and Engagement Core Director and EOHSI’s own Robert Laumbach is featured in Robert Hennelly’s article published in Salon.com: “The racial justice issue that Americans must stop ignoring: Pollution” for his extensive work on the linkages between disease and environmental contamination. Click here to read the whole article.  


January 21, 2016 0

CEED Pilot Projects for 2015-16 – Five Awards Announced

CEED, in collaboration with EOHSI, solicited applications for its 2015-16 Pilot Project Program. The mission of CEED is to understand how environmental exposures are integrated with host and environmental factors to influence human diseases. Further, to use this information to improve human health through education, outreach, and mechanistically based intervention, prevention, and treatment modalities. This…
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July 27, 2015 0

Common Pesticide May Increase Risk of ADHD – Feature in Rutgers Today

Today’s issue of Rutgers Today featured research of CEED member Dr. Jason Richardson and colleagues regarding  a commonly used pesticide that may alter the development of the brain’s dopamine system and increase the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. The research published Wednesday in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology…
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January 29, 2015 0