Education and Training

B.Sc.: University of Delhi
M.Sc.: National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Pharmaceutics)
M.Sc.: University of Louisville (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
Ph.D.: University of Louisville (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
Postdoctoral Training: University of Kentucky (Environmental Toxicology)

Research Interests

• Environmental Toxicology and Endocrinology
• Environmental Liver Disease
• Gut-Liver Interactions
• Sex Differences
• Community Science
• Environmental Health Disparities
• Military Exposures and Health Outcomes

Featured Publications

• Gripshover TC, Wahlang B, Head KZ, Luo J, Bolatimi OE, Smith ML, Rouchka EC, Chariker JH, Xu J, Cai L, Cummins TD, Merchant ML, Zheng H, Kong M, Cave MC. Multiomics Analysis of PCB126's Effect on a Mouse Chronic-Binge Alcohol Feeding Model. Environ Health Perspect. 2024 Apr;132(4):47007. doi: 10.1289/EHP14132. Epub 2024 Apr 15. PMID: 38619879; PMCID: PMC11018247.
• Petri BJ, Piell KM, Wahlang B, Head KZ, Rouchka EC, Park JW, Hwang JY, Banerjee M, Cave MC, Klinge CM. Altered splicing factor and alternative splicing events in a mouse model of diet- and polychlorinated biphenyl-induced liver disease. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol. 2023 Oct;103:104260. doi: 10.1016/j.etap.2023.104260. Epub 2023 Sep 7. PMID: 37683712; PMCID: PMC10591945.
• Luo J, Watson WH, Gripshover TC, Qaissi Z, Wahlang B. Sex-specific effects of acute chlordane exposure in the context of steatotic liver disease, energy metabolism and endocrine disruption. Food Chem Toxicol. 2023 Oct;180:114024. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2023.114024. Epub 2023 Sep 4. PMID: 37666290; PMCID: PMC10617492.
• Groswald AM, Gripshover TC, Watson WH, Wahlang B, Luo J, Jophlin LL, Cave MC. Investigating the Acute Metabolic Effects of the N-Methyl Carbamate Insecticide, Methomyl, on Mouse Liver. Metabolites. 2023 Aug 1;13(8):901. doi: 10.3390/metabo13080901. PMID: 37623845; PMCID: PMC10456691.
• Wahlang B. RISING STARS: Sex differences in toxicant-associated fatty liver disease. J Endocrinol. 2023 Jun 16;258(1):e220247. doi: 10.1530/JOE-22-0247. PMID: 37074385; PMCID: PMC10330380.
• Piell KM, Petri BJ, Head KZ, Wahlang B, Xu R, Zhang X, Pan J, Rai SN, de Silva K, Chariker JH, Rouchka EC, Tan M, Li Y, Cave MC, Klinge CM. Disruption of the mouse liver epitranscriptome by long-term aroclor 1260 exposure. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol. 2023 Jun;100:104138. doi: 10.1016/j.etap.2023.104138. Epub 2023 May 1. PMID: 37137421; PMCID: PMC10330322.
• Liu S, He L, Bannister OB, Li J, Schnegelberger RD, Vanderpuye CM, Althouse AD, Schopfer FJ, Wahlang B, Cave MC, Monga SP, Zhang X, Arteel GE, Beier JI. Western diet unmasks transient low-level vinyl chloride-induced tumorigenesis; potential role of the (epi-)transcriptome. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2023 Jun 1;468:116514. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2023.116514. Epub 2023 Apr 14. PMID: 37061008; PMCID: PMC10164119.
• Wahlang B, Gao H, Rai SN, Keith RJ, McClain CJ, Srivastava S, Cave MC, Bhatnagar A. Associations between residential volatile organic compound exposures and liver injury markers: The role of biological sex and race. Environ Res. 2023 Mar 15;221:115228. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115228. Epub 2023 Jan 4. PMID: 36610539; PMCID: PMC9957966.
• Head KZ, Bolatimi OE, Gripshover TC, Tan M, Li Y, Audam TN, Jones SP, Klinge CM, Cave MC, Wahlang B. Investigating the effects of long-term Aroclor 1260 exposure on fatty liver disease in a diet-induced obesity mouse model. Front Gastroenterol (Lausanne). 2023;2:1180712. doi: 10.3389/fgstr.2023.1180712. Epub 2023 May 12. PMID: 37426695; PMCID: PMC10327714.
• Gripshover TC, Wahlang B, Head KZ, Young JL, Luo J, Mustafa MT, Kirpich IA, Cave MC. The environmental pollutant, polychlorinated biphenyl 126, alters liver function in a rodent model of alcohol-associated liver disease. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken). 2023 Jan;47(1):60-75. doi: 10.1111/acer.14976. Epub 2022 Dec 1. PMID: 36377258; PMCID: PMC9974797.