Center for Environmental Health Sciences select 2017 poster winners
The Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) at MIT held its annual poster session on Jan. 18 in the Building 13 Lobby. The session highlighted the work of the environmental health research communities of MIT and some of the Institute's sister institutions. Over 60 posters were presented from the science and engineering laboratories affiliated with the center. The CEHS has an overall mission to study the biological effects of exposure to environmental agents in order to understand, and predict, how such exposures affect human health. Moreover, by uncovering the chemical, biochemical and genetic bases for environmental disease, sometimes researchers are able to leverage that understanding to delay or even prevent the development of disease in human populations. To that end, the center brings together 39 MIT faculty members from a total of 10 MIT departments (in both the School of Science and the School of Engineering) plus one Harvard University faculty member from the Harvard...