Dr. Gabriele Ludewig of the University of Iowa Superfund Program was awarded the prestigiouss John Doull Award at the 2016 Central States Society of Toxicology (CSSOT) meeting in November 2016. She has been a professor at the University of Iowa since 2003 when she was recruited to help re-establish the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology, which she serves as its Director of Graduate Studies.
She was president of the CSSOT in 2007-2008. For the past decade she has tenaciously pursued the question of whether persistent organic pollutants, like polychlorinated biphenyls, could be genotoxins. Her studies laid the foundation for a key finding in the recent IARC re-evaluation of the carcinogenicity of PCBs, by providing missing information on their initiating potential. Dr. Ludewig’ s contribution was critical to the elevation of PCBS to Group 1 Human Carcinogens.
John Doull is Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is author of the acclaimed reference book, Casarett & Doull’ s Toxicology. He has won numerous awards throughout his very distinguished career including the Mildred S. Christion Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Toxicological Services in 2013 and the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology Career Achievement Award in 2014.
For more information about Dr. Ludewig and the award please visit http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/news-items/ludewig-receives-2016-john-doull-award/.
Supported with funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Iowa Superfund Research Program is a highly integrated Center comprised of 17 scientists and engineers from 5 colleges and 2 universities.
Working with communities, government partners, and other Superfund Research Programs we bring a broad range of expertise to bear on public health problems associated with Superfund chemicals. The multi-disciplinary approach allows to answer key questions, such as:
- Where are the sources of airborne PCBs?
- What are the levels of human exposures to these types of PCBs?
- What are the potential roles of metabolism in biological responses to airborne PCBs?
- What are the human health effects?
- How can we remediate PCB contaminated sites?
The program started in 2006 and is directed by Dr. Keri Hornbuckle.
The Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP) is committed to making its data, methods, and technologies available to communities, researchers, and policy makers.
Examples include placing complete environmental data sets in public data repositories and on the NIEHS Iowa Superfund Research Program website.
We have created a web-based application to provide information on environmental pollutants. It can accurately predict the sampling volume of passive air samplers deployed anywhere in the world.
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The ISRP is partnering with data managers and data analysts from the University of Iowa Library to make data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).