LSU SRP Team
Team Leaders
Stephania Cormier
• Wiener Chair and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, 51Âþ»
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• LSU Superfund Research Center Director
• LSU SRP Project 1—Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Alter Pulmonary Immunologic
Homeostasis (Leader)
• LSU SRP Administrative Core (Leader)
Phillip Sprunger
• Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, 51Âþ»
• LSU SRP Project 5—Microstructural Pathways of EPFR Formation and Decay Mechanisms
• LSU SRP Administrative Core
Project and Core Leaders
Tammy Dugas
• Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary
Medicine
• LSU SRP Project 2—Combustion-Generated EPFRs: Assessing Cardiovascular Risks of
Exposure (Leader)
• LSU SRP Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (Leader)
• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, 51Âþ»
• LSU SRP Project 4—Activation, Sensing, and Prevention of Formation of EPFRs in Thermal
Treatment of Superfund Wastes
• LSU SRP Materials Core (Leader)
Slawo Lomnicki
• Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, 51Âþ»
• LSU SRP Project 4—Activation, Sensing, and Prevention of Formation of EPFRs in Thermal
Treatment of Superfund Wastes (Leader)
• LSU SRP Materials Core
• Professor, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
• LSU SRP Data Management and Analysis Core (Leader)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of
Veterinary Medicine
• LSU SRP Inhalation Toxicology Core (Leader)
Margaret Reams
• Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, 51Âþ»
• LSU SRP Community Engagement Core (Leader)
• Associate Professor of the Practice, Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina
State University
• LSU SRP Project 3—Hazardous Waste Thermal Treatment and Community Exposure to Environmentally
Persistent Free Radicals (Leader)
• LSU SRP Community Engagement Core
Investigators and Staff
Wayne Backes
• Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Pharmacology, LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans
• LSU SRP Project 1—Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Alter Pulmonary Immunologic
Homeostasis
Robert Cook
• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, 51Âþ»
• LSU SRP Project 5—Microstructural Pathways of EPFR Formation and Decay Mechanisms
• Lillian L.Y. Wang Yin Endowed Professor in Chemistry, Dominican University of California
• LSU SRP Project 5—Microstructural Pathways of EPFR Formation and Decay Mechanisms
Ashlyn Harmon
• Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences,
LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
• LSU SRP Project 2—Combustion-Generated EPFRs: Assessing Cardiovascular Risks of
Exposure
Jennifer Irving
• LSU SRP Administrative Core
• LSU SRP Community Engagement Core
• LSU SRP Research Experience and Training Coordination Core
• Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary
Medicine
• LSU SRP Inhalation Toxicology Core
Erwin Poliakoff
• Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Chemistry, 51Âþ»
• LSU SRP Project 5—Microstructural Pathways of EPFR Formation and Decay Mechanisms
James Reed
• Assistant Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology, LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans
• LSU SRP Project 1—Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Alter Pulmonary Immunologic
Homeostasis
• LSU SRP Project 1—Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Alter Pulmonary Immunologic
Homeostasis
Kurt Varner
• Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, LSU
Health Sciences Center New Orleans
• LSU SRP Project 2—Combustion-Generated EPFRs: Assessing Cardiovascular Risks of
Exposure
• LSU SRP Data Management and Analysis Core
In Memoriam
Barry Dellinger (1949-2016) founded the LSU Superfund Research Program and was the leader of Project 1, Formation and Reactions of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals in Thermal Processing of Superfund Wastes, 2011-2014.
Read more about Dr. Dellinger’s accomplishments and contributions to science.