A grant from the National Institutes of Health will support ongoing research at Wayne State University investigating the consequences environmental factors may have on fertility in males. The five-year, $3,082,404 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health is led by Richard Pilsner, Ph.D.
, professor and the Robert J. Sokol, M.D.
, Endowed Chair of Molecular Obstetrics and Gynecology in the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development in the department of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Wayne State, and faculty member in the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at Wayne State University.
Susan Sumner, Ph.D., professor of nutrition in the School of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina is co-principal investigator of the project.
The goal is to identify novel biomarkers in seminal plasma. Along with sperm, seminal plasma can influence reproductive outcomes, but there's been limited research examining metabolomic profiles in seminal plasma and how they relate to metabolic exposures and reproductive success." Richard Pilsner, PhD, Professor and Robert J.
Sokol, M.D., Endowed Chair of Molecular Obstetrics and Gynecology, C.
S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Wayne State University Pilsner and Sumner will study phthalates, a class of endocrine-disrupting compounds used in plastics and personal care products. Phthalates are ubiquitous environmental contaminant.