SWEHSC Attends the Annual EHSCC Conference
Attendees of the 2025 EHSCC Annual Meeting.
The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC) was proud to be part of the 2025 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC) Annual Meeting. SWEHSC is one of more than 20 Centers that are funded and operating around the country, working hard to advance the field of environmental health sciences.
Dr. Furlong presents at a panel at the event.
The EHSCC Annual Meeting is an opportunity for the network of Centers to gather, share research developments and updates, explore collaborative opportunities, and share successful community engagement strategies. The event was hosted by the University of Kentucky’s Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Science (UK-CARES) in Lexington, Kentucky. The SWEHSC team that attended included Nathan Cherrington, PhD, Dean Billheimer, PhD, Paloma Beamer, PhD, Melissa Furlong, PhD, Jason Wu, PhD, Sofia Forier-Montes, MS, and Ariel Escobar.
The SWEHSC team took part in various sessions, including:
- Dr. Furlong participated in a panel titled “Bridging Bench and Bedside: Environmental Contaminants and Cancer Across the Spectrum,” to discuss her work on multi-OMIC signals of cancer from wildfires and other exposures in firefighters.
- Dr. Wu presented his poster titled “Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Induces Salt-Sensitive Hypertension via ENaC – The First Experimental Evidence Supporting Causality.”
- Dr. Beamer and Ms. Forier-Montes co-chaired a roundtable engagement session on strategies for engaging with Tribal partners.
Dr. Wu standing in front of his academic poster.
The event also included a Center Director’s meeting, breakouts specific to community engagement and business administration, and posters and videos developed by each Center highlighting their successes and work over the past year. SWEHSC is proud to be part of such an impressive network and we look forward to continuing to be part of the national effort to address key environmental health issues in our communities.