Environment & Cancer Research Core
Dr. Stephen Safe, Director
Dr. Raymond Carroll, Co-Director
Dr. Joanne Lupton, Co-Director

Overview:
The Environment & Cancer Research Core has been reorganized and streamlined to integrate the most productive interdisciplinary research activities in both basic and translational research in environmental health sciences. Major aims of the Environment & Cancer Research Core are to investigate: a) signal transduction pathways, nutrition, and colon cancer (Carroll, Chapkin, Lupton, McMurray, Mallick, N. Wang);  b) signal transduction pathways and their roles in homeostasis and the development of breast cancer (Dougherty, Frankel, Ivanov, Porter, Sacchettini, Safe, Tsai);  c) signal transduction pathways and liver cancer (Donnelly, Jayaraman, Phillips, Ramaiah, Tian, S. Wang) ; d) signal transduction pathways and prostate cancer (Liu, McKeehan, F. Wang, Zimmer); and e) signal transduction pathways, biological clocks, and environmental sensing (Bell-Pederson, Cassone, Earnest, Golden, Ko).  In addition, 5 members of the Core (Donnelly, Safe, Phillips, Porter, Ramaiah) contribute to the multidisciplinary research of the Superfund Project. This Core has been exceptionally productive and provides leadership in generating bench-to-bedside translational research that has emerged from basic research activities, including technologies that will fundamentally advance environmental health sciences and create new opportunities for improving global environmental health.

Contact:
Stephen Safe, Ph.D., Director
Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology
Texas A&M University
410 VRB, Mail Stop 4466
College Station, TX 77843-4466 USA
Tel: (979) 845-5988
Fax: (979) 862-4929
Email: ssafe@cvm.tamu.edu