I was honored to attend this event today at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, honoring Dr. Alan Wayne as the new Chair of the Alfred E Mann Endowment in cancer research. The Mann Foundation also funded a new research facility which will focus on research conducted via Zebra Fish.
More and more chemicals enter our environment, and in turn, there are greater health impacts resulting therefrom. Toxins can cause a great many diseases. Zebra fish are a great medium to study toxins. They breed fast, and they are transparent. This grant will fund a large facility with Zebra Fish tanks to study cancer, particularly environmental impacts such as chemicals and how they affect our body. This is a really cool step forward in medical research.
This is a fantastic step forward in gaining knowledge about how the environment impacts health.
Environmental Science and Its Application to Health 