Susan Schantz, Jodi Flaws, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Susan Schantz, Jodi Flaws, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Susan Schantz (right), a professor of veterinary biosciences at Illinois and an environmental toxicologist, will direct the new, NIH-funded Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Illinois. Veterinary biosciences professor Jodi Flaws, a reproductive toxicologist, will act as associate director of the new center, which will investigate whether common plastics chemicals alter child development, cognition or behavior.

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