Therefore, biomarkers can be used as tools to monitor human populations for possible health risks as well as in risk assessments.
Research focuses on developing and validating new biomarkers for environmental carcinogen exposure.
Our goals are to quantify these mutational changes, determine the mechanisms involved, and understand the relevance to predicting health risks. Opportunities exist to develop new molecular biomarkers for both humans and animal models, study molecular mechanisms involved, and conduct interdisciplinary studies to evaluate the biomarkers in human populations.