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Congratulations to our stellar undergraduate, graduate students, and PhD candidates who are being recognized for their achievements, awards,
and work in the community.
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Environmental Health Sciences Students & Researchers Take Home Several SOT Awards
Once again, Wen Public Health postdoctoral scholars and doctoral students in our Environmental Health Sciences degree programs had a remarkable showing at the 2025 Annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting, which was held in Orlando, Florida, at the end of March.
The SOT is a professional and scholarly organization of scientists from academic institutions, government, and industry representing the great variety of scientists who practice toxicology in the U.S. and abroad.
Wen Public Health doctoral students received several awards, including:
- Jose Arturo Jimenez-Chavez, postdoctoral scholar received a travel award from the Hispanic Organization of Toxicologists (a special interest group within SOT)
- Madeline Vera-Colon, PhD student received a Distinguished Toxicologist Award and a travel award from the Hispanic Organization of Toxicologists (a special interest group within SOT)
- Madhura Moore, PhD candidate received the Mech SS Renal Toxicology Award and also the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award from the Association of Scientists of Indian Origin
Presenters included:
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Luísa Bertotto - Disrupting Osteogenesis: The Effect of Zyn® Nicotine Pouches on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
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Elizabeth Choy - Uncovering the Impact of Engineered Stone Particle-Related Silicosis: Mechanisms and Effects in an In Vitro Respiratory Model
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Nneamaka Iwobi - Beyond BPA: The Risks of Bisphenol Alternatives on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Osteoblast Differentiation
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Jose Arturo Jiménez-Chávez - Ocular differential fibrosis induction in female and male C57BL/6 mice after exposure to ultrafine particles
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Ruth Meletz - Unmasking the Additives in E-Liquids and ZYN Pouches Using GC/EI-MS
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Madhura Moore - Climate Change Stressor Vibrio Vulnificus-induced exacerbation of renal injury in underlying insulin resistance and weight gain via Leptin-IL-17-NF-KB Pathway
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Madeline Vera-Colón - Molecular Toxicology Pathway Analysis of Particulate Matter-Induced Disruption in Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
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Brenda Bustos, MPH, a PhD in Public Health Student (Disease Prevention), pictured at right.
Brenda Bustos, MPH, a PhD student, was awarded a UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship, which is part of the newly established UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI DDI). The fellowships support professional development and preparation to become a professor. She was chosen for her outstanding academic achievements, commitment to advancing issues of equity and inclusion, and interest in pursuing a career in academic teaching.
Ms. Bustos was also the 2025 recipient of the Graduate Student Excellence Award – Public Health for the UC Irvine Latine Excellence & Achievement Award (LEAD). Congratulations to Brenda Bustos on both fronts!
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Pooja Gadhvi
2nd Year MPH student
Epidemiology Concentration
Gadhvi was awarded the prestigious Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship. She is serving as leader in an oral health needs assessment research project at Jamboree Housing communities, supporting the community’s vulnerable populations.
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Juan Carlos Ruiz Malagon, MS, MA
PhD in Public Health Student
Global Health Concentration
Ruiz Malagon and his community partner Ayudando a Latinos Soñar, a collaborative research group from Stanford University, were awarded one of the 2025 Community Partnership Awards by the Stanford University Office of Community Engagement and the Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service for their research work in the Stanford Partnership for Immigrant Child Wellbeing.
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