"Mount Sinai Scientist Awarded $8 Million for Visionary Research on Environmental Influences on Health and Disease"
A theory that proposes the existence of a dynamic interface between the environment and human physiology over someone's lifetime has earned a leading Mount Sinai researcher the prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Manish Arora, PhD, MPH, BDS, FICD, vice chair of the department of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will receive a total of eight million dollars over eight years to complete research into his theory, known as the Biodynamic Interface. Dr. Arora said, "I am grateful to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for this award that will help unlock the environmental underpinnings to diseases with causes and therapies that remain largely unknown."
— Manish Arora, PhD, MPH, BDS, FICD, Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Dentistry, Vice Chairman, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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