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,  co-leader, 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 Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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

Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

LSU Superfund Research Program Oxidative Stress Core leader.  

Randall W. Hall

Dr. Lillian L.Y. Wang Yin Endowed Professor in Chemistry, Dominican University of California

LSU Superfund Research Project Computational Core leader

Lavrent Khachatryan

Assistant Professor Research, Louisiana State University Chemistry Department

LSU Superfund Research Project Formation and Reactions of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals in Thermal Processing of Superfund Wastes research scientist.

Slawo Lomnicki

Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University 

LSU Superfund Research Project Materials 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

Betsy Paille

LSU Superfund Research Program Community Engagement coordinator

Kelli Palmer

LSU Superfund Research Program Research Translation Core coordinator

Erwin Poliakoff

Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

LSU Superfund Research Center 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

Professor of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University
LSU Superfund Research Center 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 Center 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 Center Research Translation liaison to health professionals

Kurt J. Varner

Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, 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 Center Research Translation Core Leader

Dennis R. Wissing

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

Ansonia  Badgett 

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

Simone Dominigue

Graduate Student, Environmental Sciences Department, Louisiana State University

Elisabeth Feld
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Ajit Ghimire

Graduate Student, Environmental Sciences Department, Louisiana State University

Xia Guan

Graduate Student, Environmental Sciences Department, Louisiana State University

Chuqi Guo

Graduate Student, Environmental Sciences Department, Louisiana State University

Ugwumsinachi Nwosu
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

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

Cholena Ren

Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Chad Thibodeaux
Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Maria Belen Toscano

Graduate Student, Environmental Sciences Department, Louisiana State University

John Young

Graduate Student, School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University

Postdoctoral Researchers 

Farhana Hassan
Postdoctoral researcher, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Sridhar Jaligama

Postdoctoral Researcher, Pediatrics Department, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Cheri McFerrin
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Dominican University of California

Matthew Patterson

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

Asmaa Sallam

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Balamurugan Subramanian

Postdoctoral researcher, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Undergraduate Students

Josef Baylis
Undergraduate Student, Dominican University of California

Chase Doiron

Undergraduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University

Brittany Dupre 

Undergraduate Student, School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University

Matt Hayes

Undergraduate Student, Dominican University of California

Drake McCrimmon
Undergraduate Student, Chemistry Department, Louisiana State University