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The Kassotis Lab

is open at Wayne State University! We joined the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (lab home in the Integrative Biosciences Center - IBio), with a co-appointment in the Department of Pharmacology. 

Our lab will be focused on understanding endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and mixtures, and their potential impacts on human/animal health - with a particular focus on metabolic health (e.g. obesity, etc.). 

My research uses a mixture of cell culture mechanism assays, coupled with zebrafish and mouse models, to characterize molecular mechanisms underpinning potential impacts of EDCs on human and animal health.

Research
Lab News and Updates
August 2023
New co-author paper published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology that focuses on the policy situation surrounding endocrine disrupting chemicals, roadblocks to regulation, and potential solutions to these issues. 
The Regulation of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals to Minimize Their Impact on Health


May 2023

Praneeth Goli has joined the lab as an MS student and will be completing his thesis research over the course of the academic year!

Darya Aminioroomi has joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher and will be helping out with various lab projects.

New commentary with Dr. Alli Phillips on complex mixtures was published in Toxics: 
Complex Mixtures and Multiple Stressors: Evaluating Combined Chemical Exposures and Cumulative Toxicity


March 2023
Aicha Khalaf (winner of an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program award) presented a poster at the WSU UROP Conference for Undergraduate Research.  

Five members from the Kassotis Lab attended the Society of Toxicology 2023 annual meeting in Nashville, TN! We presented four poster presentations on diverse lab projects and caught up on lots of great science all around. 

New lab paper published in Science of the Total Environment: Adipogenic and Endocrine Disrupting Mixture Effects of Organic and Inorganic Pollutant Mixtures.

New lab paper published in Metabolites: Cetyl Alcohol Polyethoxylates Disrupt Metabolic Health in Developmentally Exposed Zebrafish.
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christopher.kassotis@wayne.edu
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