Ester Omaiye Receives a TRDRP Postdoctoral Award

Esther Omaiye, an ETOX alumna currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prue Talbot, an ETOX faculty member, has been awarded a three-year grant from the University of California’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) to investigate how ratios of solvents and chemical mixtures in e-cigarettes influence their in vitro toxicity. As described in an Inside UCR news article about the award, Dr. Omaiye indicates that “As a postdoctoral researcher, I want to understand how certain combinations of these chemicals influence the toxicity of the aerosols generated from e-cigarettes.... Performing the experiments in controlled lab settings will help provide data supporting the regulations of e-cigarette chemical constituents concerning their use and health effects. I am very excited about the opportunity TRDRP has given me.” Our congratulations to Ester for receiving this nice award.  

Professor Yinsheng Wang Receives ACS Founders' Award

Professor Yinsheng Wang, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and ETOX faculty member, recently received the 2023 Founders'Award from the Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society at its annual meeting in San Francisco.  Above is a photo of Yinsheng receiving the award from Michael Stone, the Division President.  The plaque reads "For seminal contributions to the field of Chemical Toxicology". Our congratulations to Yinsheng for this nice recognition of his many and significant research contributions.