Dr. Robert Wright is the Ethel H Wise Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and trained in pediatrics, toxicology, genetics and environmental epidemiology. He received his MD from the University of Michigan, his MPH from Harvard and completed pediatric residency at Northwestern University. He completed fellowships in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Brown Medical School and Medical Toxicology, Environmental Epidemiology and Genetics at Harvard. He has been on faculty at Brown, Harvard and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine which he joined in 2012, where he established the Lautenberg Laboratory for Environmental Health.
In 2017 he co-founded the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research with Dr Rosalind Wright which integrates the Lautenberg Lab with the Center for GeoMedicine that links maps of environmental factors (air pollution, temperature, green space, exposure biomarkers, built environment etc) with human health data and is co-funded by an NIEHS P30 Core Center grant and the Mount Sinai CTSA.
Since 2015, he has directed the NIEHS Mount Sinai Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource Targeted Lab Hub and Mount Sinai’s NIEHS P30 Core Center. He also established the Programming Research in Growth, Obesity and Social Stressors (PROGRESS) longitudinal birth cohort in 2007 based in Mexico City in which he integrates research on epigenetics, the developmental origins of health and disease and gene-environment interaction using an exposome life course approach.
He has published over 500 research manuscripts and has served on numerous national, federal and international boards related to environmental health and exposomics. In partnership with NEXUS, he works to promote and disseminate exposomics internationally by co-directing an annual global exposome symposia which has been held in Europe, Latin America, Asia and North America with future symposia planned for Africa and Australia/New Zealand.
At each symposia local researchers and U.S. based exposome researchers network, trade methodologies, learn about local infrastructure capabilities and needs, and methods to implement exposomics clinically, commercially and in public health. He also has been writing an exposome perspectives blog since 2021 that disseminates ideas and concepts on how to use exposomics in research, public health practice, clinically in medical practice and even in our daily lives.
Featured Work
https://mountsinaiexposomics.org/topics/exposome-perspectives-blog/ also available on substack-
https://sinaiexposomics.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJDQh-l4q8
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12366651/
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