Who We Are
We are a team of environmental epidemiologists, exposure scientists, analytical chemists, and data scientists committed to advancing environmental health research. Our mission is to translate our research findings into interventions to improve health outcomes.
Our labs are equipped with innovative technologies that enable the team to:
Develop new, groundbreaking analytical methods, which assess chemical exposures and the timing of past chemical exposures.
Expand the scope of research we conduct at Mount Sinai to include areas such as air pollution, metals, organics, chemical mixtures, epigenetics, and the fetal origins of adult diseases.
Advance interdisciplinary research among our faculty, bringing together scientists with different backgrounds and approaches to environmental health and complex diseases.
Create a scientific milieu that fosters innovation, encourages the cross-pollination of ideas, and revolutionizes how environmental health research is conducted.
We strive to push the field forward using novel approaches to address environmental health concerns such as:
Use new statistical methods to analyze the impact of chemical mixtures—which reflect the reality of children’s daily exposures.
Connect cutting-edge epigenetic marks to chemical exposure to better understand how chemicals “program” health trajectories that underlie why some childhood exposures lay dormant for years and then cause disease in adulthood.
Develop new exposure biomarkers to facilitate more accurate understanding of the timing, duration, and dose of toxic exposures that may have occurred years previously.
Integrate animal and human study methodology to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms of toxicity.
