Excerpt from WDTN
Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine is trying to find out why people have different responses to exposures like burn pits or other military-relevant chemicals.
The school has received federal funds to make this research project possible — a $643,000 grant from the Toxic Exposures Research Program. It is only one of 17 schools in the country to be given this grant.
The groundbreaking study will identify key components, which differ between people and might trigger diverse molecular responses to the same chemical exposures.
Both Courtney Sulentic, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine, and her collaborator, Camilla Mauzy, Ph.D., at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, were awarded the funding.
“We’re looking for this data to provide insight into individual sensitivity, based on gender and stress levels, to outcomes from different military-relevant environmental exposures,” said Sulentic in a release.
The Toxic Exposures Research Program provides solutions toward the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and mechanistic understanding of the adverse health outcomes associated with a broad range of military-related toxic exposures impacting the health of service members, veterans and the American public.
