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Honors student named Wayne State’s first Udall Scholar

Faculty spotlight

Christopher Kassotis

School of Medicine

Christopher Kassotis, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology in the School of Medicine and the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, received the 2024 Lou Guillette Jr. Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) organization. His work provides the framework needed to facilitate change in the manufacturing, marketing and management of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and ultimately educate policy makers, regulatory agencies, physicians and the public about their potential damaging effects.

“It is our goal to help shift regulations toward more inclusion of mixture exposure considerations to better protect public health. My lab aims to improve chemical risk assessment models to account for everyday exposures to hundreds of different chemicals and, ultimately, will lead to better protection of human health.”

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