{"id":32,"date":"2023-05-15T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:25:11","slug":"examining-environmental-exposures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/projects\/examining-environmental-exposures\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining environmental exposures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Examining environmental exposures<\/h1>\n

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\u201cThis study will provide the Navajo Nation with information on rates of kidney disease and kidney cancer and the potential correlation to environmental exposures from contaminants of legacy mining,\u201d said Regents\u2019 professor\u00a0Jani Ingram,<\/strong>\u00a0NAU\u2019s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u201cThe project will translate the findings into practical tools for health care providers to assist in early detection and diagnosis of kidney cancer and disseminate the findings to communities to minimize exposures. We will provide a roadmap for future work linking environmental exposures and cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ingram is an expert on environmental exposure and uranium mining and has authored many publications on the effects of environmental contaminants, especially on humans. She is the principal investigator of the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (NACP) and director of the Bridging Native American Students to Bachelor\u2019s Degree (BRIDGES) program, and she is a member of the Navajo Nation from the Naneesht\u2019ezhi clan.<\/p>\n

Other researchers on the project with Ingram include\u00a0Ricky Camplain, assistant professor with CHER and the Department of Health Sciences; a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in environmental health; and a chemistry graduate student to focus on environmental chemistry work.<\/p>\n

The team will be advised by\u00a0Ken Batai, cancer researcher,\u00a0Melissa Furlong, environmental epidemiologist at the University of Arizona, and\u00a0Bethany Davis, translational genomics researcher from TGEN.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team will take a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the complex issue of the correlation between environmental exposure from legacy mining and cancer,\u201d Ingram said.<\/p>\n

Funding:<\/strong>\u00a0The study is funded by NIMHD\/NIH U54MD012388<\/p>\n

Our project team<\/h2>\n
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Jani Ingram, PhD<\/h3>\n

Northern Arizona University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regents’ Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/p>\n\n

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Tasha Nez, MS ESP<\/h3>\n

Northern Arizona University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research Coordinator\n\n

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Ken Batai, PhD<\/h3>\n

University of Arizona<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research Assistant Professor, Urology, Public Health<\/p>\n\n

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Melissa Furlong, PhD<\/h3>\n

University of Arizona<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences<\/p>\n\n

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Bethany Davis, PhD<\/h3>\n

Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Examining environmental exposures \u201cThis study will provide the Navajo Nation with information on rates of kidney disease and kidney cancer and the potential correlation to environmental exposures from contaminants of legacy mining,\u201d said Regents\u2019 professor\u00a0Jani Ingram,\u00a0NAU\u2019s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u201cThe project will translate the findings into practical tools for health care providers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/1419"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/native-american-cancer-health-equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}