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Columbia SBRP Headlines
4/2008
Research Translation Core scientists partner with Rockland County and United Water: Collaborative Ground Water Study
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United Water, Rockland County, Lamont-Doherty team up for groundwater study

$60,000 groundwater study could begin in Rockland this summer

United Water Announces Partnership
 

 

Lake DeForest, United Water of New York reservoir for Rockland County, October 2007.

Next SBRP Seminar: Friday May 16th, Comer Geochemistry Building, 1st Floor Seminar Room, Lamont Campus

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Publications
Dr. Mary Gamble with her Columbia SBRP team conducts a pioneering study that shows folic acid lowers blood arsenic levels in Bangladesh. NIEHS NIH News press release, Wednesday, October 10, 2007.

Columbia SBRP scientist Dr. Tom K. Hei and colleagues from Columbia University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Japan's National Institute of Health Sciences gain a better understanding of how asbestos induces malignancy.

  • Xu, An, S.X. Huang, Yu-Chin Lien, Lingzhi Bao, Zengliang Yu, and Tom K. Hei. 2007. Genotoxic mechanisms of asbestos fibers: role of extranuclear targets. Chemical Research in Toxicology 20(5):724-33.
  • Xu, An, L.B. Smilenov, P. He, K. Masumura, T. Nohmi, Z. Yu, and Tom K. Hei. 2007. New insight into intrachromosomal deletions induced by chrysotile in the gpt delta transgenic mutation assay. Environmental Health Perspectives. 115(1):87-92.