On the Heights: April 2025
Departmental news, research highlights, community achievements, and more to help you stay connected with the Michigan Public Health community.
Toxicology
$26M NIH grant addresses environment influences on child health
New project from Michael Elliott
Backed by a $26 million federal grant, researchers at three Michigan universities, a leading health care system, and a state agency will continue a long-term study of how exposure to environmental factors during pregnancy and early childhood can impact health for a lifetime.
Aspartame and cancer: A toxicologist's take
Q&A with Jackie Goodrich
Jackie Goodrich, research associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, discusses the World Health Organization's recent decision to classify the artificial sweetener as possibly carcinogenic while also maintaining the current recommendation of safe daily intake.
Researchers study epigenetic changes with PFAS exposure in mother-infant pairs
New research from Michigan Public Health
A team of University of Michigan researchers from the School of Public Health DoGoodS-Pi Environmental Epigenetics Lab and Michigan Medicine are working to understand how behaviors and environments during pregnancy can cause changes to the way genes work in offspring. This emerging field is known as toxicoepigenetics.
Michigan Public Health Faculty and Students Recognized by Society of Toxicology
Four University of Michigan School of Public Health faculty and students were recognized by the Society of Toxicology (SOT) at the SOT Annual Meeting March 10-14, 2019.
Dana Dolinoy Receives Achievement Award from Society of Toxicology
Dana Dolinoy, NSF International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, received the 2018 Achievement Award from the Society of Toxicology for her work to understand how nutritional and environmental factors influence epigenetic gene regulation, and how early life exposures can lead to disease later in life.