Laying the foundation for future remediation

Superfund Center investigations have contributed to the discovery and validation of novel biomarkers of both exposure and cardiometabolic injury that lay the foundation for future remediation strategies.

Projects

Project 1
VOCs and cardiometabolic injury
Project 2
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiometabolic toxicity of VOCs
Project 3
Development and field application of novel ultrasensitive devices for the measurement of airborne VOCs
Project 4
Advancing VOC treatment with novel materials and processes

Superfund Research Center by the numbers

48

Faculty and full-time staff

30

Trainees

$10.9M

NIH center grant

Explore the Superfund Research Center

Pawel Lorkiewicz, Xie Zhengzhi, Jin Chen, Jasmin Tran, Maleesha DeSilva, Shweta Srivastava, Tatiana Krivokhizhina and David…
About us
Learn how we support research on the cardiometabolic impact of exposure to volatile organic compounds.
Millicent Gornek uses a microscope to look at samples in a Superfund Research Center lab in UofL's Christina Lee Brown…
Cores
The Superfund Center houses a suite of core services to support the needs of the investigators in the center as well as others on campus.
Dr. Israel Sithu works with a clinical chemistry analyzer in a Superfund Research Center lab in UofL's Christina Lee Brown…
Faculty
Meet the scientists who are studying the health impacts of chemicals found at Superfund and other hazardous sites.