Robert Laumbach
Associate Professor
Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
United States of America
Biography
Current research interests are focused on two areas: 1) the interactive effects of exposure to multiple air pollutants and psychosocial stressors, and their cumulative impact on urban disparities in asthma, heart disease and cancer and 2) biological mechanisms underlying the effects of diesel exhaust and other air pollutants on pulmonary and cardiovascular disease. Approaches include community-based participatory research, controlled exposure studies, and semi-controlled “real-world” environmental exposure studies.
Research Interest
Clinical Research, Occupational Medicine
Publications
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Pettit, AP, Kipen, H, Laumbach, R, Ohman-Strickland, P, Kelly-McNeill, K, Cepeda, C, Fan, ZH, Amorosa, L, Lubitz, S, Schneider, S et al.. Disrupted Nitric Oxide Metabolism from Type II Diabetes and Acute Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution. PLoS ONE. 2015;10 (12):e0144250. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144250. PubMed PMID:26656561 PubMed Central PMC4682772
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Patton, AP, Laumbach, R, Ohman-Strickland, P, Black, K, Alimokhtari, S, Lioy, P, Kipen, HM. Scripted drives: A robust protocol for generating exposures to traffic-related air pollution. Atmos Environ (1994). 2016;143 :290-299. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.08.038. PubMed PMID:27642251 PubMed Central PMC5019181
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Sunil, VR, Vayas, KN, Fang, M, Zarbl, H, Massa, C, Gow, AJ, Cervelli, JA, Kipen, H, Laumbach, RJ, Lioy, PJ et al.. World Trade Center (WTC) dust exposure in mice is associated with inflammation, oxidative stress and epigenetic changes in the lung. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 2017;102 (1):50-58. doi: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2016.12.005. PubMed PMID:27986442 PubMed Central PMC5472054
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Thurston, GD, Kipen, H, Annesi-Maesano, I, Balmes, J, Brook, RD, Cromar, K, De Matteis, S, Forastiere, F, Forsberg, B, Frampton, MW et al.. A joint ERS/ATS policy statement: what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution? An analytical framework. Eur. Respir. J. 2017;49 (1):. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00419-2016. PubMed PMID:28077473
