Michigan State University scientists will lead a $14.1 million, five-year initiative to better understand how environmental contaminants called dioxins affect human health and to identify new ways of removing them from the environment.
“Dioxins are ubiquitous,” said lead researcher Norbert Kaminski, director of the Center for Integrative Toxicology in MSU's College of Veterinary Medicine and a professor of pharmacology and toxicology.
This program brings together a large, multidisciplinary group of investigators. “It’s a rare opportunity when you can bring all these different areas of expertise together to focus on a single problem or theme, and that’s why we’re very excited about having this type of funding,” says Kaminski.
Read the MSUToday story on the five-year grant from the Superfund Research Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Michigan State University scientists will lead a $14.1 million, five-year initiative to better understand how environmental contaminants called dioxins affect human health and to identify new ways of removing them from the environment.
“Dioxins are ubiquitous,” said lead researcher Norbert Kaminski, director of the Center for Integrative Toxicology in MSU's College of Veterinary Medicine and a professor of pharmacology and toxicology.
This program brings together a large, multidisciplinary group of investigators. “It’s a rare opportunity when you can bring all these different areas of expertise together to focus on a single problem or theme, and that’s why we’re very excited about having this type of funding,” says Kaminski.
Read the MSUToday story on the five-year grant from the Superfund Research Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
July 29, 2013
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