Pitt Environmental and Occupational Health

01/26/2023

The American Lung Association has released their 2023 report on Pennsylvania’s failing grades in to***co control/smoking cessation:

American Lung Association State of To***co Control

05/20/2022

Congratulations to our very own "Cover Scientist" Professor Valerian Kagan! Dr. Kagan was featured in the May 2022 Anti-Oxidants and Redox Signaling Journal. http://ow.ly/GBy350JeuIN # FreeRadicals

03/07/2022

Congratulations to our 2021-2022 Research Collaborative Grant Winners:

Winning Proposal:
Air Pollution and Fibrotic Lung Disease: Drs. Fabisiak (EOH), Nouraie (PACCM/SOM), Goobie, MD (HUGEN PhD candidate), and Degenholtz (HPM)

Runners-Up:
Prenatal smoking and birth outcomes: the influence of environmental factors on children’s health in Western Pennsylvania: Drs. Bortey-Sam, Sanders, and Tang (EOH)

Identification of new regulators of ferroptosis: An epigenetics approach: Drs. Dar and Tang

03/07/2022

Our EOH Student Seminars were a great success!

12/16/2021

EOH's own Sally Wenzel and Valerian Kagan are High Cited Researchers 2021 awardees by Clarivate. Congratulations!

11/05/2021

EOH's Dr. Wenzel featured in a Physiological Review Podcast

Commentary and discussion on featured articles in Physiological Reviews...

10/11/2021

In honor of Indigenous People’s Day here are a few resources to learn more about the history of the native people of our area:
http://ow.ly/7J9d50Gpy8h

ON CAMPUS TODAY - An informal activity at the Global Hub (1st Floor Posvar) for Indigenous Peoples' Day! http://ow.ly/bBAL50Gpy8e

10/08/2021

On behalf of the EOH chair: The Air We Breathe: A Regional Summit on Air Pollution and Asthma in Our Community | UPMC - Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences - November 5th, 2021 http://ow.ly/khH450GooS4

09/29/2021

Shell cracker plant confirms a sweet-smelling odor came from its Beaver County facility “Factual identification of the actual agents responsible for or released in association with the reported smells should be a high priority, in the absence of which assigning any potential health risk becomes very problematic,” says University of Pittsburgh environmental and occupational health professor and Breathe Project member James Fabisiak. He also pointed the reporter toward CDC facts to help explain that the rumors that the smell was due to ethylene glycol were likely incorrect, keeping the focus on the bigger issue of the release, rather than false speculation.

Residents throughout Beaver County have reported a maple-syrup-like odor over the weekend. Shell Pennsylvania Chemicals responded on Facebook on Sun., Sept. 26, confirming the odor...

07/06/2021

EOH's Schuyler and Wenzel link life in “redlined” neighborhoods with lower lung function:

Adults with asthma living in neighborhoods that were deprioritized for mortgage investments in the 1930s, or redlined, had worse lung function than those living in non-redlined areas, researchers reported.Redlining is a form of institutional racism and discriminatory mortgage lending practice enacte...

06/22/2021

PITT EOH Article: Elucidating the contribution of mitochondrial glutathione to ferroptosis in cardiomyocytes

Ferroptosis is a programmed iron-dependent cell death associated with peroxidation of lipids particularly, phospholipids. Several studies suggested a possible contribution of mitochondria to ferroptosis although the mechanisms underlying mitochondria-mediated ferroptotic pathways remain elusive. Red...

06/21/2021

PITT EOH Article: Phospholipids of APOE lipoproteins activate microglia in an isoform-specific manner in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease

APOE and Trem2 are major genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how they affect microglia response to Aβ remains unclear. Here we report an APOE isoform-specific phospholipid signature with correlation between human APOEε3/3 and APOEε4/4 AD brain and lipoproteins from astrocyte co...