NIEHS's Nyska Honored
NIEHS's
Dr. Abraham Nyska, from the Laboratory
of Experimental Pathology, coauthored the paper selected for the Best Paper
Award by Toxicological Sciences, the official journal of the Society
of Toxicology. The study was a collaboration between NIEHS, EPA and Harvard
University School of Public Health. It looked at the relationship between
air pollutants and illness or death from heart disease and found that heart
injury occurred in animals exposed to particulate matter during regular
intervals over a long period of time. According to a press release issued
by the EPA, the study is part of a major EPA research initiative to better
understand the effects of particulate matter on susceptible populations
such as the elderly and young. EPA's Urmila Kodavanti is the paper's lead
author and accepted the award on behalf of all authors at the society's
annual meeting Mar. 21.
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