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For a more in-depth view of faculty research interests, including
representative publications and E-Mail addresses, there are links
to several faculty Web page sites in the Other NYU Web Sites section
Belitskaya-Levy,
Ilana, Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
High-dimensional data analysis; Algorithms for missing data analysis;
EM algorithm; cluster analysis, developing statistical methods
for analyzing large data arising in genomics and molecular biology,
DNA microarrays, flow cytometry; Statistical design and analysis
of clinical trials; Data mining; teaching
Bhanot, Opinder
S., Ph.D.
(Professor [Research] of Environmental Medicine)
DNA damage, replication, repair, and mutagenesis
Bosland,
Maarten C., D.V.Sc., Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine and Urology; Director, NYU/National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [NIEHS] Center Histopathology
and Experimental Animal Facility; Codirector, NYU Cancer Institute
Genitourinary Cancer Program)
Hormonal carcinogenesis; Prostate cancer chemoprevention; Prostate
and breast cancer endocrine disruption; Experimental pathology
Burns, Fredric
J., Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Cancer prevention and multiple stages in radiation carcinogenesis;
Patched gene and DNA repair genes in cancer susceptibility;
Arsenic cocarcinogenesis; DNA repair and proliferation
Chen, Lung Chi, Ph.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine; Associate Director,
NYU/EPA Particulate Matter (PM) Health Center)
Inhalation toxicology; Exposure-response relationships; Air pollution
Cohen, Beverly
S., Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Measurement of personal exposures to airborne toxicants; Dosimetry
of inhaled pollutant gases and aerosols; Airborne radioactivity
Cohen, Mitchell
D., Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor [Research] of Environmental Medicine)
Pulmonary immunotoxicology of inhaled pollutants; Effects of inhaled
pollutants on lung/lung immune cell iron homeostasis; Modulation
of cytokine biochemistry by metals and complex mixtures; Pulmonary/immunotoxicology
of World Trade Center dusts
Cohen, Norman,
Ph.D.
(Research Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Radio-biology, -chemistry, and -physics of the biokinetics, metabolism,
and toxicology of heavy-metal, bone-seeking radionuclides in human
and non-human primates;
Environmental ecology of radionuclides, bioassay, internal dosimetry,
and assessment of low-level radiation exposures using measurements
of internal radioactive contaminants; Chelation and other therapeutic
techniques for reducing health-risks associated with systemic
deposits of radioactive materials
Condon,
Mark S., Ph.D.
(Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Stromal-epithelial interactions in carcinogenesis, in vitro and
animal models of prostate cancer progression and metastasis
Costa, Max,
Ph.D.
(Professor; Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine)
Metal carcinogenesis and toxicology; DNA-protein interactions; DNA
damage; Histone modifications and epigenetic mechanisms of carcinogenesis
Evans, Hugh
L., Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Neurotoxicology
Frenkel,
Krystyna, Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine and Pathology)
Carcinogenesis and chemoprevention; Role of endogenous oxidative
stress in cancer and aging; Contribution of inflammatory cytokines
to carcinogenesis; Effects of radiation-, metal-, and chemical-induced
free radicals and their interactions with DNA on cancer development;
Biomarkers of cancer risk
Friedman-Jiménez, George, M.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Occupational and clinical epidemiology; Epidemiology of radiation
and cancer; Epidemiology of asthma; Epidemiologic methods;
Urban populations
Goldberg,
Judith D., Sc.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Design and analysis of clinical trials; Survival analysis; Disease
screening and misclassification; Analysis of observational data;
Statistical genomics
Goldsheyder, David, Instructor
(ERBI Master's Student Advisor; Senior Manager Educational Services,
NYU/Hospital for Joint Diseases [HJD]-Occupational and Industrial
Orthopaedic Center [OIOC])
Biomechanics; Workplace design; Workstation modification; Ergonomics
Gordon,
Terry, Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, Systemic
Toxicology Program)
Genetic susceptibility of lung disease produced by environmental
and occupational agents
Gunnison, Albert F., Ph.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Molecular mechanisms and toxicology of pulmonary inflammation;
DNA microarray technology, Reproductive toxicology
Halpern,
Manny, Ph.D.
(Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine; Senior
Manager, Ergonomic Services, NYU/HJD-OIOC)
Ergonomics; Workplace intervention; Injury prevention; Methodology;
Job analysis
Harley,
Naomi H., Ph.D.
(Professor [Research] of Environmental Medicine)
Dosimetry of internally deposited radionuclides; Measurement of
radiation and radioactivity; Risk modeling of radiation carcinogenesis
Heikkinen, Maire S.A., Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor [Research] of Environmental Medicine)
Measurement of ultrafine and nanometer aerosols; Development
of instrumentation for collection and analysis of acidic,
radioactive, and biological particles
Huang, Chuanshu,
Ph.D., M.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Signal transduction in tumor promotion and prevention; Molecular
mechanism of carcinogenesis caused by ultraviolet radiation, metal
compounds, and smoking
Huang, Xi,
Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Implication of iron and oxidative stress in human diseases
Ito, Kazuhiko, Ph.D.
(Assistant
Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, NYU/NIEHS Center
Information Services; )
Human health effects of air pollution and risk analysis
Jaeger, Rudolph
J., Ph.D.
(Research Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Inhalation toxicology; Aerosol science; Plastics toxicology and
the toxicology of their monomers; Combustion products; Tobacco smoke
toxicology; Pulmonary pathophysiology; Liver toxicity and pathophysiology;
Effects of lead and heavy metals on the developing nervous system
Klein, Catherine
B., Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, NYU/NIEHS
Facility Cores; Director, NYU/NIEHS Laboratory Supplies and Services
Facility Core; Consultant, NYU/NIEHS Cytogenetics Facility and NYU
Cancer Institute)
Mammalian mutagenesis; Epigenetic gene control; DNA methylation;
Oxidants; Metals; Estrogens; Molecular cytogenetics
Koenig,
Karen, Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, NYU/NIEHS
Center Biostatistics Shared Resource)
Epidemiology of coronary heart disease and cancer; Epidemiologic
methods
Lippmann,
Morton, Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, Human Exposure and
Health Effects Program)
Inhalation toxicology; Aerosol science and physiology; Occupational
and environmental hygiene; Air pollution
Liu,
Mengling, Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Analysis of longitudinal data with informative censoring; Survival analysis;
Semiparametric inference; Analysis for quality of life data
Marmor,
Michael, Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine and Medicine; Director,
Epidemiology Ph.D. Track)
Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and
other infectious diseases; Clinical trials of HIV vaccines and
nonvaccine interventions; Environmental, occupational, and
ophthalmologic epidemiology
Nâdas, Arthur,
Ph.D.
(Associate Professor [Research] of Environmental Medicine)
Mathematical statistics; Biostatistics; Mathematical biology; Statistical
design of HIV immunotypes and with the goal of a broadly effective
polyvalent
vaccine for HIV; Experimental design and analysis using microarrays
and gene chips; Statistical analysis of telemetry data; Mathematical
modeling of spontaneous mutagenesis; Rapid multivariate diagnostic
tests for TB; Pattern recognition using dynamic programming, Hidden
Markov modeling and neural networks
Narayanan,
Bhagavathi A., Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Prostate cancer chemoprevention; Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory
Drugs (NSAIDs); Genomic and proteomic approaches; Potential molecular
targets; Gene silencing with siRNA
Narayanan, Narayanan K., Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Chemopreventive proteomics, Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid
(n-3 PUFAs) against prostate cancer; Proteomic profiling of differentation
inducing proteins
Nordin, Margareta, Med.Dr.Sci.
(Research Professor of Environmental Medicine; Program Director,
Ergonomics and Biomechanics [ERBI]; Director, NYU/HJD-OIOC)
Occupational musculoskeletal disorders, low back pain; Prevention
of injury, prevention of disability; Motor control; Biomechanics;
Ergonomics
Qu, Qingshan,
M.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Pulmonary toxicology; Biomarker application and risk assessment
Rom, William
N., M.D., M.P.H.
(Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine; Professor of
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service)
Environmental and occupational lung diseases; Molecular mechanisms
of lung cancer; Tuberculosis [TB]/AIDS Interferon-gamma therapy
for TB, and TB vaccine and immune response; Environmental policy,
wilderness preservation, and global warming
Rossman,
Toby G., Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, Molecular Toxicology
and Carcinogenesis Program)
Spontaneous mutagenesis; Genotoxicity of metal compounds; Mechanisms
of resistance to metals; Arsenic carcinogenicity
Roy, Nirmal K., Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor [Research] of Environmental Medicine)
Molecular biology of the aromatic hydrocarbon receptor pathway;
DNA lesions and mutations induced by xenobiotic compounds
Shao, Yongzhao,
Ph.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Biostatistics; Clinical trials; Mixture models; Resampling techniques;
Statistical genomics; Statistical inference; Survival analysis
Sheikhzadeh, Ali, Ph.D.
(Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine; ERBI Doctoral
Student Advisor; Assistant Director of Research, NYU/HJD-OIOC)
Occupational biomechanics; Biomechanical modeling and testing;
Electromyography; Ergonomic product evaluation
Shore, Roy
E., Ph.D., Dr.P.H.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, Environmental Epidemiology
Program)
Environmental and genetic epidemiology of cancer; Radiation
epidemiology; Epidemiologic methods
Solomon,
Jerome J., Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, Graduate Program
in Environmental Health Sciences; Director, Analytical Chemistry
Resource, NYU/NCI Cancer Institute)
DNA-carcinogen interaction; Biological consequences of DNA adducts;
Mass spectrometry in carcinogenesis and environmental research
Stabile,
Joseph, Ph.D.
(Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Toxic algal blooms; Population of anadromous fishes
Steinetz,
Bernard G., Ph.D.
(Research Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Environment of the newborn: a possible role of milk-borne hormones
in phenotypic expression of inherited hip dysplasia; Role of hormones
in protection against environmental carcinogen-induced breast cancer
afforded by early pregnancy; Role of hormones in the modulation
of insulin resistance of pregnancy
Suen, Ting-Chung, Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor [Research] of Environmental Medicine)
Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, breast and ovarian cancers,
transcriptional regulation of BRCA1; Effects of carcinogens
on gene
expression;
Gene chips and microarays
Tang, Moon-shong,
Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Carcinogenesis and mutagenesis; DNA damage; DNA repair
Tchou-Wong, Kam-Meng, Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
p53 pathways in metal and carcinogen-induced lung cancer; Wnt signaling pathways
in lung fibrosis and cancer; chemoprevention of lung carcinogenesis; I0nfection
and ethnic disparities in diabetes risk and cardiovascular diseases
Thurston,
George D., Sc.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine; Director, NYU/NIEHS
Center Community Outreach and Education Program)
Human health effects of inhaled air pollutants; Asthma; Aerosol
science; Acidic air pollution; Air pollution meteorology and modeling;
Risk analysis
Toniolo,
Paolo G., M.D., M.P.H.
(Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Environmental Medicine;
Director, Program in Epidemiology and Prevention, NYU Cancer Institute)
Cancer epidemiology; Role of endogenous hormones in the etiology
of chronic diseases; Influence of diet on endogenous hormones in
health and diseases; Health consequences of human exposure
to hormonally active agents in the environment
Tseng, Chi-hong, Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Survival analysis; Measurement error models;
Design of clinical trials Weiser, Sherri, Ph.D.
(Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine; Senior
Manager, Psychological Services, NYU/HJD-OIOC)
Biopsychosocial models; Low back pain; Personality and health;
Occupational stress
Wirgin,
Isaac I., Ph.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Molecular biology of carcinogenesis; Cancer in aquatic organisms;
Population genetics and molecular evolution
Zeleniuch-Jacquotte,
Anne, M.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Cancer epidemiology; Methods in epidemiology and clinical
trials
Zelikoff,
Judith T., Ph.D.
(Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine)
Immunotoxicology; Development of immune biomarkers and alternative
animal models for immunotoxicological studies; Effects of inhaled
pollutants on host resistance and pulmonary immune defense
mechanisms; Metal-induced immunotoxicity
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