Pharmacology & Toxicology

Dr. Andrea C. Gore from the college's Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology talked to The New York Times about the chemicals in receipts and whether skin absorption may cause potential health issues (login required).

Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Vacek Chair in Pharmacology Andrea C. Gore, Ph.D. was featured on the cover of Endocrine News. Dr. Gore discusses her recent paper in the Journal of the Endocrine Society which found that early-life exposure to a certain class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals may lead to behavioral problems later in life.

Postdoctoral researcher in the Gore Lab Dr. Emily Hilz is a Phase 2 winner of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services competition to reduce Black women’s risk of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Hilz’s winning program created Endoscreen, a mobile phone application to increase awareness of and reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in personal care products.

Division Head and Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Doluisio Regents Professor Karen Vasquez, Ph.D. recently published an article in Nature Communications. The study, titled “Obesity increases genomic instability at DNA repeat-mediated endogenous mutation hotspots,” represents the first demonstration that obesity increases genetic instability at alternative DNA structures (in this case H-DNA), which are hotspots for mutations in human cancers.