Graduate Lab at USC with Drs. Caleb Finch PhD and Constantinos Sioutas PhD Groups

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a lab meeting with Dr. Caleb Finch, his graduate students, and some of Dr. Constantinos Sioutas‘ graduate students today at the University of California in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology building.  They are performing studies testing the health impacts of air pollution.  I was introduced to Dr. Sioutas by way of Dr. Pat Levitt at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.  Dr. Levitt is the Chief Scientific Officer at CHLA, and the Director of the Saban Research Institute at CHLA.  He is also a professor at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.  Dr. Levitt reached out to Dr. Sioutas on my behalf.  I am very thankful to him for his assistance.  The lab meeting was extremely interesting.  The level of scientific knowledge was incredible.  The team invited me to attend lab exposures of mice to see what impacts pollution has on them.  I can’t wait to observe these actual experiments.