Lab News

We just got a manuscript entitled "The conflict between regulatory agencies over the 20,000-fold lowering of the tolerable daily intake (TDI) for bisphenol A (BPA) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)" accepted by Environmental Health Perspectives for publication. This is a landmark paper that suggests changes in the existing regulatory guidelines on the tolerable daily intake of BPA. Kudos to Fred for developing this commentary and including me in the group of outstanding scientists in the world.
Frederick S. vom Saal,1 Michael Antoniou,2 Scott M. Belcher,3 Ake Bergman,4 Ramji K. Bhandari,1 Linda S. Birnbaum,5 Aly Cohen,6 Terrence J. Collins,7 Barbara Demeneix,8 Anne Marie Fine,9 Jodi A. Flaws,10 Veronique Gayrard,11 William Goodson,12 Andrea C. Gore,13 Jerrold J. Heindel,14 Patricia A. Hunt,15 Taisen Iguchi,16 Christopher D. Kassotis,17 Andreas Kortenkamp,18 Robin Mesnage,2 Jane Muncke,19 John Peterson Myers,20 Angel Nadal,21 Retha R. Newbold,22 Vasantha Padmanabhan,23 Paola Palanza,24 Zandra Palma,25 Stefano Parmigiani,26 Lyn Patrick,9 Gail S. Prins,27 Cheryl S. Rosenfeld,28 Niels E. Skakkebaek,29 Carlos Sonnenschein,30 Ana M. Soto,30 Shanna H. Swan,31 Julia A. Taylor,1 Pierre-Louis Toutain,32 Frank A. von Hippel,33 Wade V. Welshons,34 Daniel Zalko,11 R. Thomas Zoeller35

1Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA

2Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King’s College London School of Medicine, London, UK

3Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

4Department of Environmental Science (ACES), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

5Scientist Emeritus and Former Director, NIEHS and NTP and Scholar in Residence, Duke University, USA

6Integrative Rheumatology Associates, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

7Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

8Comparative Physiology Laboratory, Natural History Museum, Paris, France

9Environmental Medicine Education International, Mancos, Colorado, USA

10Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

11ToxAlim (Research Centre in Food Toxicology), University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

12California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA

13Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin,

Texas, USA

14Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

15School of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State

University, Pullman, Washington, USA

16Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

17Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

18Centre for Pollution Research and Policy, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

19Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland

20Environmental Health Sciences, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

21Instituto de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Biotecnología Sanitaria de Elche (IDiBE) and CIBERDEM, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Elche, Alicante, Spain

22Scientist Emeritus, NIEHS and NTP, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

23Departments of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Molecular and Integrative

Physiology, and Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

24Unit of Neuroscience, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

25PalmaMD, Miami, Florida, USA

26Unit of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

27Department of Urology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

28Biomedical Sciences, Thompson Center for Autism and Neurobehavioral Disorders, and MU Institute of Data Science and Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA

29Department of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

30Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

31Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA

32Royal Veterinary College, University of London, London, UK

33Department of Community, Environment & Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

34Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA

35Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

We received the funding for the 3rd year of the NIH R01 grant today and are looking forward to exciting research activities for the funding period 2023-2024. Congratulations, team! 👏

November 20, 2023. Monday. 3:30 pm

After three months of hard work, the Bhandari lab has finally started operating. Thanks to everyone in the Bhandari Research Group for outstanding contributions to make this happen. 

Sourav’s second manuscript from the dissertation project has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Technology journal. Congratulations, Sourav!
Chakraborty, S., Anand, S., Coe, S., Reh, B., Bhandari, R.K. (2023). The PCOS-NAFLD multi-disease phenotype occurred in medaka fish four generations after the removal of bisphenol A exposure. Environmental Science and Technology 57 (34): 12602–12619.