Stories from the blog

Taking a metagenomic approach to antimicrobial resistance
Erica Fuhrmeister takes a comprehensive look at the role of environmental factors in the development of antimicrobial resistance

Join us for the 2025 EDGE Symposium: Environmental Health Sciences in a Changing Environment
The 2025 EDGE Symposium will be held on June 4th.

EDGE awards pilot grants to four new research projects
The 2025 awardees will apply diverse approaches to environmental health from toxicology, omics, and epidemiology to environmental engineering.
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The EDGE Center is committed to conducting and communicating science that reduces the burden of environmentally-related diseases through science translation into policy and practice. We use cutting edge molecular and systems biology to explore how the interactions of genetics, epigenetics and environmental factors contribute to diseases of public health importance. In particular, we are at the forefront of research into molecular signatures (biomarkers) associated with toxicant exposure. Our work to uncover important genetic, epigenetic and environmental contributions to chronic diseases can help improve prevention, early diagnosis, and the development of effective treatments. Such developments will substantially reduce the social burden and health care costs associated with sickness and early death caused by diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, liver disease, kidney disease, metabolic disorders like diabetes, chronic neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and developmental and reproductive disorders.