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CUE is pleased to announce the formation of a new research cluster!

The Metals in Environment and Health (MEH) research cluster will foster scholarship and public engagement on a range of important topics, including:

• extraction and recycling of heavy metals from industrial waste and contaminated ecosystems;
• detection and quantification of heavy metals in industrial, environmental, and biological samples;
• incorporation of heavy metals in novel molecular probes, nanomaterials, and pharmaceutical compounds; and
• assessment of the effect of heavy metals on human health and the well-being of other organisms.

The founding members of this new research cluster are:

• Dr. Makan Golizeh (Assistant Professor, Analytical Chemistry)
• Dr. Patrick Kamau (Professor, Biochemistry and Chemistry)
• Dr. Emmanuel Mapfumo (Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental Sciences)
• Dr. Matthew Churchward (Assistant Professor, Biological and Environmental Sciences)
• Dr. Sergey Ishutov (Faculty of Science) 
• Dr. Cecilia Bukutu (Associate Professor, Public Health)
• Dr. John Washington (Associate Professor, Chemistry)

We look forward to the many successes of this new research cluster at CUE!