Four ISRP researchers attended an EPA meeting in East Chicago, Indiana, on April 6, 2019. The EPA debriefed East Chicago residents on its planned cleanup activities for the U.S.S. Lead Superfund site, which encompasses East Chicago’s Calumet neighborhood.

ISRP researchers have developed a method to measure the movement, or flux, of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from water to air using passive sampling devices. The Project 4 team, led by Andres Martinez, PhD, and ISRP director Keri Hornbuckle, PhD, demonstrated that simple and cost-effective passive samplers could be used to overcome this challenge.

ISRP trainee Eric Uwimana and colleagues from the ISRP Synthesis Core, Project 1, and Project 3 investigated the biotransformation of PCB 91 to OH-PCBs by human liver microsomes (HLMs) and published their work in Environmental Science & Technology

In a study released in Environmental Science & Technology, Dr. Keri Hornbuckle and trainees Jacob Jahnke and Nick Herkert discovered that kitchen cabinets built within the last five years emit PCBs into the air.

The ISRP Research Translation Core released the first in a series of web-based applications designed to transfer ISRP research methods and data to researchers, regulators, government, the general public, and other stakeholder communities.