Friday, October 22, 2021
2:00 – 3:00 PM
COEH, 100 Theory, Room 158
Saurabh Chatterjee, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Environmental Health & Disease Laboratory
Department of Environmental Health
Sciences
Arnold School of Public Health
University of South Carolina
Dr. Chatterjee is an environmental health scientist with specialized training in immunology and disease pathology. He currently directs the Environmental Health and Disease Laboratory at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of public Health at University of South Carolina. He also leads the Toxicology research core of the NIH funded Center for Oceans and Human Health for Climate Change Interactions as a Project Director. Dr. Chatterjee is also a research scientist at the Columbia Dorn VA Medical Center and leads two large research programs aimed to study the environmental exposure-induced deployment-associated health risks in Veterans. After completing his Ph.D. in inflammation biology with focus on occupational heat stress and disease mechanisms at Bhabha Atomic Research Center affiliated to the University of Mumbai, he pursued his postdoctoral work at the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH. Later he continued his specialized research in environmental effects of chronic liver disease development in obesity at Duke University School of Medicine under the K99 portion of his NIH pathway to Independence Award. Dr. Chatterjee’s research has been continually funded by NIH, Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. He has made significant contributions to the field of host microbiome interactions in climate change and occupational disease outcomes and its relationship with ectopic manifestations in the brain and Neuro-Immune pathology. His research has led to translatable impacts in designing preventable and therapeutic strategies in occupational disease such as Gulf War Illness with multiple ongoing clinical studies. Dr. Chatterjee has published over 80 journal articles and several book chapters with most of them being with student co-authors or student-lead authors.
Passion: Dr. Chatterjee believes in research that plays a significant role in improving health outcomes in communities and that leads to preventable strategies. He is dedicated to mentor our next generation graduate students and junior faculty who care for our environment, occupational hazards and Veterans.