BCM-Rice Superfund Research Program

Join us online Wed. 10/9 @ 1 pm ET to see @AlisonPaquette of Seattle Children's Research Institute present our next free, public #ECHODiscovery webinar on the role of the #placenta in the relationship between chemical exposures and #preterm birth: bit.ly/3ZDsgxI

The suffering of the Medcalf family is but one story among far too many that are emblematic of the struggles behind America’s Superfund program, which aims to clean up sites around the country contaminated with a range of dangerous industrial toxins. ehn.org/superfund-clea…

Congratulations to professors Pedro Alvarez and Antonios Mikos for being elected fellows of the @americanacad, the nation’s foremost society of scholars. bit.ly/3w5mclx

Congratulations to civil and environmental engineering professor Pedro Alvarez for being elected a fellow of the @americanacad, the nation’s foremost society of scholars. bit.ly/3w5mclx

Please join us for our upcoming seminar featuring Jackie Medcalf, founder of THEA. @TXHEA

Curious about the current status of the Waste Pits? Join us in ONE WEEK for Superfund Site updates and cupcakes for THEA’s birthday! Be there at 6:30 at the Highlands Community Center 604 Highland Woods Dr., Houston, TX 77562.

Congratulations to our SRP trainee, Gwen Hummel, who recently received a Fulbright award to study at the University of Western Australia in 2025! @BCMGradSchool

A study published in Toxicological Sciences used new tools to detect microplastics in human placentas, and found microplastics in all 62 of the placentas sampled. ehn.org/microplastics-…

Honored that our collaborative work was recognized at @MySMFM #SMFM24 with the Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award Supported by @baxi_md | @TCHResearchNews @bcmhouston @BCMFromtheLabs @BCMSuperfund

@eliseo_fc @jorgenvironment @BarrozoPhD hsc.unm.edu/news/2024/02/h…

Naomi Halas, a pioneering researcher in the fields of nanophotonics and plasmonics at Rice University, has been awarded the 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize for Nanoscience/Nanomaterials from the American Physical Society. bit.ly/46OZ2ga

Congrats to our Project 3 colleagues on their recent publication showing that environmental PAHs increase neonatal lung injury. Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) augments neonatal hyperoxic lung injury: Role of cytoc… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38081439/

Excited to present at the annual SRP meeting today. Sara Denison from Project 4 at Rice University presented on utilizing clays to enhance pyrolysis of PAH remediation. Melissa Suter presented data on altered metabolomics in preterm birth. #SRP2023

APHA Annual Meeting & Expo coming up. Introducing Xiara Day and Ruby Hernandez, @tamusuperfund CEC trainees, who will be showcasing their @SRP_NIEHS research at the poster sessions. Stop by and check out their posters. @PublicHealth @tamuvetmed

Please come join us on Sept. 7 for a discussion at SCI CAFE on Clean Air for Blue Skies.

Micro-RNAs may serve as a protective epigenetic mechanisms in the neonatal female lung. @kdocneo @CCoarfa Loss of microRNA-30a and sex-specific effects on the neonatal hyperoxic lung injury pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37553579/