Available Graduate Projects:
1. Mechanistic studies investigate organelle dysfunction, epigenetic modifications, and transcriptomic pathway analysis to understand how environmental exposures alter liver disease progression.
2. Carcinogenesis research determines mechanisms by which low-level vinyl chloride and chemical mixtures promote tumor formation in metabolically compromised liver tissue.
3. Therapeutic intervention projects develop pharmacologic and genetic approaches to prevent or treat toxicant-diet interactions, while advancing sensitive biomarkers for early detection of environmental hepatotoxicity.
4. Environmental health surveillance conducts community-based research and develops rapid-response methods for environmental disasters.
Our research focus is on environmental vinyl chloride exposure in the context of existing underlying liver disease.