The Molecular Toxicology emphasis area focuses on investigating how, why, and when chemicals cause harm to life, such as affecting cellular and molecular processes that lead to toxicity or cancer. Students, in collaboration with a faculty mentor, conduct original research into the interaction between living systems and chemicals.
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Kara Fikrig
- Assistant Professor of Vector Ecology
The intersection of entomology and public health, with a focus on understanding the drivers and barriers of mosquito. . .
Joshua Gross
- Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Biobehavioral Health
Cellular- and transgenic mouse model-based approaches to investigate the molecular mechanisms of G protein-coupled receptor. . .
Xiangming Ji
- Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Metabolic studies in the airway epithelium, spanning from normal cells to at-risk epithelial cells, and ultimately to cancer. . .
Vivek Kapur
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Global Health
- Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The basic mechanisms by which pathogenic microbes successfully infect, colonize, and cause disease in their hosts.
Joshua Kellogg
- Emphasis Area Representative, Molecular Toxicology
- Associate Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Development of new metabolomics tools for chemical and biological characterization of complex systems. Discovery of new. . .
Joshua Lambert
- Professor of Food Science
Dietary polyphenols in prevention of obesity and fatty liver disease; efficacy and mechanisms of action of food-derived. . .
Melanie McReynolds
- Huck Early Career Chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The biochemistry behind aging and its intersection with stress, with the long-term goal of identifying strategies that. . .
Andrew Patterson
- Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
The Patterson lab is focused on understanding the host-metabolite-microbiome axis
Gary Perdew
- H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Mechanisms of receptor-mediated carcinogenesis. Regulation and functional analysis of Ah receptor activity: role in cancer. . .
Jeffrey Peters
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis
- Interim Director, The Penn State Cancer Institute
Roles of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) in the regulation of homeostasis, toxicology, and. . .
Kumble Sandeep Prabhu
- Professor of Immunology and Molecular Toxicology
Molecular mechanisms by which bioactives such as selenium, omega-3 fatty acids, and other products of natural origin alter. . .
Carly Schissel
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The discovery, design, and synthesis of bioactive peptides with unusual amino acids and structures to create novel peptides. . .
Jack Vanden Heuvel
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
Mechanisms of action of hypolipidemic drugs and peroxisome proliferators; steroid hormone receptor-mediated signal. . .
Fang (Rose) Zhu
- Associate Professor of Entomology
Understanding the mechanisms and evolution of insects’ adaptation to chemical stresses in their environment.