Save the date for Kentucky's premier event for clinical and translational research. The 22nd Annual CCTS Spring Conference will be held March 30, 2027 at Central Bank Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
Come to learn, connect, and showcase your own research with other researchers, trainees, and community members. The conference draws more than 1,000 participants and hosts hundreds of posters.
Centered on the theme "Protecting Health in a Hazardous World," this year’s conference highlights the exposome, the cumulative health-relevant human exposures that people encounter throughout the lifespan. Beyond this primary focus, the day’s presentations and posters will showcase wide-ranging research topics.
A keynote address will be presented by Robert O. Wright, M.D., M.P.H., the Ethel H. Wise Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and co-director of the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai's Ichan School of Medicine.
A call for abstracts, registration, and more information about the day's agenda are forthcoming. Check this webpage or subscribe to our newsletter for updates.
Keynote Speaker
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH
Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health
Co-Director, Institute for Climate Change, Environment and Exposomics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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 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 started his career at Harvard in 1997 and joined Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2012 where he established the Lautenberg Laboratory for Environmental Health and founded the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research. The Institute includes the Center for GeoMedicine that links maps of environmental factors (air pollution, temperature, green space, built environment etc) with human health data and is co-funded by the Mount Sinai CTSA. He currently directs the CTSA optional function in Exposomics as well as the Mount Sinai NIEHS P30 Core Center- Health and Environment Across the Life Span (HEALS). He established the Programming Research in Growth, Obesity and Social Stressors (PROGRESS) longitudinal birth cohort in 2007 based in Mexico City in which he studies the developmental origins of health and disease using an exposome exposure approach. He has published over 500 research manuscripts and has served on numerous national, federal and international boards related to environmental health.
