Wayne L. Backes

Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans

LSU Superfund Research Program Pollutant-Particle Systems and Xenobiotic Bioactivation research leader, Administrative Core co-leader, Training Core co-leader

Tina Black

Assistant to the Director

Robert Cook

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

LSU Superfund Research Program Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals in Contaminated Soils research leader

Stephania Cormier

Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans

LSU Superfund Research Program Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Alter Pulmonary Immunologic Homeostasis  research leader

Barry Dellinger

Patrick F. Taylor Chair of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

LSU Superfund Research Center Director, Formation and Reactions of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals in Thermal Processing of Superfund Wastes research leader

Tammy Dugas

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport

LSU Superfund Research Program Oxidative Stress Core leader

Randall W. Hall

Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

LSU Superfund Research Project Computational Core leader

Slawo Lomnicki

Assistant Professor Research, Louisiana State University Chemistry Department

LSU Superfund Research Project Combustion Core leader

Robin McCarley

Barbara Womack Alumni Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

LSU Superfund Research Program Training Core leader

Elisabeta Mitran

LSU Superfund Research Program Training Core coordinator

Erwin Poliakoff

Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

LSU Superfund Research Program Structure and Properties of Metal Oxide Particle-Adsorbate Systems research leader

Vanessa Pitts-Ponder

LSU Superfund Research Center

Coordinator of Grants and Development

Margaret Reams

Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University
LSU Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core leader

James R. Reed

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112

LSU Superfund Research Program Pollutant-Particle Systems and Xenobiotic Bioactivation co-leader

Jill Rush-Kolodzey

 AHEC Program Director, Assistant Director MPH Program, School of Allied Health Professions

LSU Superfund Research Program Research Translation liaison to health professionals

Kurt J. Varner

Professor and Interim Head, Department of Pharmacology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

LSU Superfund Research Program Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Increase Cardiac Vulnerability to Ischemia research leader

Maud Walsh

Professor of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University

LSU Superfund Research Project Research Translation Core Leader

Dennis R. Wissing

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

Professor of Medicine & Cardiopulmonary Science , Assistant Dean, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA

LSU Superfund Research Project Research Translation Core liaison to health professionals

Graduate Students

Nuwan Balapitiya
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Brendan Burn
Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans

 
William Gehling
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Paul M. Herring
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Lucy Kiruri
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Greg Lee
Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans

Ugwumsinachi Nwosu
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Matthew Patterson

Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Phillip M. Potter
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Jordy S. Saravia
Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans

Chad Thibodeaux
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Postdoctoral Researchers

Albert Dela Cruz
Postdoctoral researcher, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Gin Chuang
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans

Farhana Hassan
Postdoctoral researcher, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Cheri McFerrin
Postdoctoral researcher, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Research Associates

Tabitha M. Cale
Research Associate, Environmental Science, Louisiana State University