OUR MISSION

is to improve environmental health through implementation of high-impact, trans-disciplinary research on environmental health.

We aim to apply novel team-science approaches to address today’s key pressing environmental  health issues and understand the risk factors that continue to drive obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic disease and cancer through translational research design. 

FROM OUR NEWS //

September 19-21, 2022

Trainees from the USC’s RTEN center presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting for the International Conference for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in Athens, Greece. Postdocs, Jesse Goodrich, PhD and Brittney Baumert, PhD, MPH gave oral presentations on exposure to PFAS and hepatocellular carcinoma and markers of liver injury.

See all of our group’s abstracts and posters here.

PRESS RELEASE

Exposure to a synthetic chemical found widely in the environment is linked to non-viral hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and published in JHEP Reports.

PRESS RELEASE

Exposure to a class of widely used synthetic chemicals is connected to liver damage according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and published April 27th, 2022, in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Exposome and Health Workshop

October 27th, 2021

9:30am – 3pm PST

 

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Contact srock@usc.edu for workshop recordings

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