Join the Exposure Specialty Section (ESS) 2026 Award Winners Webinar as recipients share cutting-edge research advancing the field of exposure science. This webinar showcases innovative research from emerging leaders and provides attendees with insights into new approaches for understanding human exposures and addressing complex environmental health challenges.
Featuring:
Tri Huynh, ESS Best Abstract Award
“Coexisting with Toxic Legacies: Assessing Soil Metal Levels, Sources, and Health Risks Associated with Living Amid Contamination Within a Superfund Site”
Using advanced source-apportionment methods and probabilistic risk modeling, this research demonstrates that metal exposures may exceed health-based benchmarks for some community members, providing critical evidence to support community-centered remediation and environmental justice efforts.
Dr. Yongcheng Li, ESS Postdoctoral Travel Award
“From Numbers to Mechanisms: A Unified Framework for Interpreting and Predicting Urinary Excretion Fractions”
This research introduces a mechanistic framework for predicting urinary excretion fractions (FUEs) by integrating how chemicals are absorbed, metabolized, and excreted with biomonitoring data. The framework can be used to explain differences in FUE values, resolve inconsistencies in existing datasets, and enable FUE predictions for chemicals lacking human data. By incorporating population biomonitoring information, the model also generates person-specific FUE estimates, supporting more accurate exposure assessment, toxicokinetic modeling, and chemical risk prioritization