In the News
STEEP Seminar Series - The STEEP 2024-2025 Seminar Series brings together experts to explore PFAS exposure, health risks, and cutting-edge research. Kicking off on November 20, 2024, Dr. Joseph Braun of Brown University will discuss PFAS and metabolic diseases. On December 11, 2024, Dr. Philippe Grandjean will examine bias in PFAS studies, and on January 8, 2025, Dr. Alicia Timme-Laragy of UMass Amherst will present on PFAS… ...Read more
URI Campus Tour for Cape Cod Youth - In late May, STEEP Community Engagement Core (CEC) hosted a University of Rhode Island (URI) campus visit for Cape Cod middle and high school students, to encourage Cape Cod youth to continue their learning journey into higher education and to consider studying STEM.… ...Read more
STEEP Welcomes Johanna Ganglbauer, Data Manager - Johanna Ganglbauer has joined the STEEP team as Data Manager. Her main task is to ensure that data within STEEP is published according to the FAIR principles, findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Ganglbauer will collaborate with the STEEP team to develop show case examples and support a gradual cultural change towards open data and reproducible science.… ...Read more
In All Creatures Great and Small: Bound and Unbound PFAS Across Human, Rat, and Mouse Proteins - In protein binding, PFAS attaches to blood plasma or proteins, an interaction which affects the distribution and impact of PFAS. In this study, STEEP researchers examined binding comparatively across rats, mice, and humans, focusing on albumin, a protein produced in the liver, and plasma, the liquid component of blood that makes up about 55% of blood… ...Read more
More PFAS, More Problems? STEEP and Collaborators Assess PFAS Accumulation in Fish Over Time - When it comes to evaluating the ways that PFAS can harm living organisms, there’s no simple way to start. There are often more questions than answers, followed by a series of decisions that must be made to make sure you’re limiting any sort of bias, contamination, or overly convoluted conclusions.… ...Read more
Lohmann Receives Fulbright Specialist Award - Lohmann engaged in a collaborative exchange with scientists, government officials, and the public to deepen the study of PFAS—per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—in Icelandic water systems. Lohmann was interested in studying PFAS contamination… ...Read more
98%Americans with PFAS in blood
>2,200US PFAS-contaminated sites
>110 millionAmericans with contaminated drinking water supplies
50% decreaseof PFOS and PFOA in blood with water filtration
