RESEARCH
The Wahlang Lab studies how environmental pollution impact our overall metabolic health. Our research focuses on identifying sex-dependent mechanisms that drive metabolic disease outcomes with chemical exposures and investigating potential intervention strategies to combat the harmful effects of environmental toxicants.
The Wahlang Lab adopts a translational research approach and incorporates both human epidemiological studies and basic toxicological experiments to conduct scientific studies and achieve their research objectives and goals. Areas of research interests include:
- Sex and gender in environmental toxicology
- Volatile organic compounds and liver injury
- Persistent organic pollutant mixtures as metabolic and endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Multi-organ toxicity including the endocrine-gut-liver axis and adipose-liver axis
Current Funding
EVALUATING MECHANISMS OF SEX DIFFERENCES IN ENVIRONMENTALLY-INDUCED METABOLIC DISEASES
SEX-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES ON METABOLIC DISEASES: ROLE OF THE GUT-LIVER AXIS