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F O C U S   &   D E S C R I P T I O N

It is widely believed that many non-infectious disease states such as asthma, diabetes, and especially cancers, are environmentally induced or triggered. The "Environmental Disease and Toxicology” Research Core integrates the research interests of its members to generate an interdisciplinary approach to investigate molecular mechanisms of  environmentally-induced diseases.  Environmental stimuli are broadly defined to include an array of physical and chemical challenges to human beings resulting in toxicity and responses which may adversely affect human health.

| Core Goals  |   Research Interests & Organization  | 
| Leadership | Membership |

Core Goals:

The major goals of RC1 are to: 

• Foster expanded research collaborations between individual investigators in the Core and members of other Cores
   

• Develop new interdisciplinary environmental health-related research projects and expand extramural funding by Core members
   

• Develop new faculty and encourage their participation in environmental health-related research
   

• Expand and develop new population-based and environmental-based research projects focusing on regional underserved populations
   

• Expand the Toxicology Graduate Program at UNM

Research Interests & Organization:

Core member research focuses on how environmental agents modify or injure organ and tissue function, focusing on biochemical mechanisms of toxicity. 

Investigators employ genomic and proteomic methodologies in many of their studies.

Because New Mexico encompasses a number of unique and underserved populations, the core is placing new emphasis on community environmental public health concerns. 

This research core also collaborates with investigators examining lung injury and disease and has emerging interactions with epidemiologists and other public health scientists working with New Mexico’s unique populations.

Leadership: 

Dr. Laurie Hudson is a Professor of Toxicology of the UNM College of Pharmacy who
co-leads this core in collaboration with Dr. Jim Liu, an Associate Professor of Toxicology also at the College of Pharmacy.  Contact Information for Dr.s Hudson and Liu is below:

Laurie G. Hudson, PhD College of Pharmacy MSC09 5360 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505) 272-2482   fax (505)272-6749 lghudson@unm.edu

Ke Jian Jim Liu, PhD College of Pharmacy MSC09 5360 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505) 272-2482   fax (505)272-6749 Kliu@salud.unm.edu

Membership

Steve Abcouwer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
MSC08 4670
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131
sabcouwer@salud.unm.edu

Andrea Allan, PhD
Biochemical and Neurotoxicology Subcore Coleader
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosciences

Scott Burchiel, PhD
NM NIEHS Center Director
Professor & Associate Dean for Research
UNM College of Pharmacy
MSC09 5360
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131
sburchiel@salud.unm.edu

Lee Anna Cunningham, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosciences
MSC08 4740
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
leeanna@salud.unm.edu

Linda Felton, PhD*
Assistant Professor
UNM College of Pharmacy
MSC09 5360
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

Jim Gale, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Cell Biology & Physiology
MSC08 4750
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131  

Donald Godwin, PhD*
Associate Professor & Interim Associate Dean for Student Affairs
UNM College of Pharmacy
MSC09 5360
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131
dgodwin@salud.unm.edu

Andy Hu, PhD*
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
MSC08 4670
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131
ahu@salud.unm.edu

Pope Moseley, M.D.
Executive Advisory Board Member
Professor & Chair
Department of Internal Medicine
MSC10 5550
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131
pmoseley@salud.unm.edu

Robert Rubin, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics & Micribiology
MSC08 4660
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131
rlrubin@salud.unm.edu

Daniel Savage II, MD
Chair
Department of Neurosciences

Zhiyuan Shen, PhD
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
MSC08 4660
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
zshen@salud.unm.edu

Honglian Shi, PhD*
UNM College of Pharmacy
MSC09 5360
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
hshi@salud.unm.edu

Graham Timmins, PhD*
Assistant Professor
UNM College of Pharmacy
MSC09 5360
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131
gtimmins@salud.unm.edu

*Associate Center Member

New Mexico Center for Environmental Health Sciences.  1 University of New Mexico.  MSC10 5550.  Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
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