Primary (full) members of NYU Langone’s Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards must have environmental health sciences (EHS) research funding that has supported 20 percent or more of their research time over the last 2 years from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or a private foundation.

The broader scope of eligible funding sources reflects the exciting and new reality that clinical and translational sciences paradigms are integrating into EHS. To encourage clinical investigators to explore EHS research, we offer two-year associate memberships that permit greater interaction with primary members.

Primary and associate membership is reviewed every year. Center members who no longer devote substantial research effort to EHS are removed from primary membership. Associate members may be promoted to full membership if they have obtained federal or private foundation funding for EHS research.

We also require a minimum annual contribution of 10 hours to center events and use log books to identify inactive members, encouraging those with low participation to re-engage.

Primary Members

Associate Members

Jose O. Aleman, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine

Jennifer Apell, PhD
Department of Civil and Urban Engineering

Kevin R. Cromar, PhD
Departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine

Rachel S. Gross, MD
Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health

Chuanshu Huang, PhD
Departments of Environmental Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Urology

Melanie Jacobson, PhD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics

Thomas Kirchner, PhD
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Constantine E. Kontokosta, PhD
Department of Civil and Urban Engineering

Daniel B. Neill, PhD
Departments of Computer Science and Public Service

Jonathan Newman, MD, MPH
Department of Medicine

Maurizio Porfiri, PhD
Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Urban Engineering

Yongzhao Shao, PhD
Departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine

Andrea Silverman, PhD
Department of Civil and Urban Engineering

Diane M. Simeone, MD
Departments of Surgery and Pathology

George D. Thurston, ScD
Departments of Environmental Medicine and Population Health

Richard Tsien, PhD
Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology and Neurology

Beatrix M. Ueberheide, PhD
Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Neurology

Michael L. Weitzman, MD
Departments of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine

Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, MD
Departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine