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MIT CEHS Newsletters:


NEWS:

May 22, 2008: Annual Poster Session at Walker Memorial

May 7, 2008: Poster Abstract Form due

April 1, 2008: 2008 Pilot Project Recipients Announced

February 1, 2008: CEHS 2008 Poster Session will take place on May 22, 2008 at Morss Hall in the Walker Memorial Building.

January 25, 2008: MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences have put a call out for Pilot Projects. Those applications are due Feburary 15, 2008. Click here for further details.

Announcements:

The MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences through support from the NIEHS is pleased to announce that it has awarded Six Pilot Projects to MIT Faculty and Principal Research Scientists.  The projects will be funded for a period of one year April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009.

Award recipients and their research projects are:

Peter Dedon, Professor, CEHS/Biological Engineering
“Changes in the Spectrum of tRNA Secondary Modifications as Biomarkers of Exposure”

Catherine Drennan, Associate Professor, Chemistry
“Structural Studies of DNA Repair Protein Human Alkyladenine Glycosylase”

Susan Erdman, Principal Research Scientist, Division of Comparative Medicine
“Inflammation-associated Prostate Cancer: Development of Mouse Models for Assay of Environmental Contaminants”

Jongyoon Han, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Biological Engineering
“Direct Coupling of Nanofluidic Preconcentration System and Conventional Mass Spectrometry”

Michael Strano, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Steven Tannenbaum, Professor, Biological Engineering, and Gerald Wogan, Professor, Biological Engineering
“Detection of Toxic Events in the Liver in vivo using Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes”

Bruce Tidor, Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science/Biological Engineering
“Exploring DNA Damage Response Networks with High-Dimensional Information Theoretic Statistics”

The Center congratulates each of the recipients and looks forward to a year of productive and stimulating interactions with all.