Join us at Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD), a seminar series hosted by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The speaker is Chemical Insights Research Institute’s Dr. Christa Wright.

Director of the Center for Toxicology and Human Health, Chemical Insights Research Institute

Christa Wright is the Director of Toxicology at the Center for Toxicology and Human Health within Chemical Insights Research Institute in Marietta, Georgia. Her work aims to unravel particle and chemical mediated molecular mechanisms that causes cellular phenotypic changes, which may lead to disease development. Using cutting edge instrumentation, Wright works to link chemical and particle emission exposures from various consumer products to adverse cellular outcomes using a systems biology approach.

Wright received a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems/Environmental Toxicology and a Masters in Cancer Biology from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduate school,

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