Paternal & Maternal PFAS Exposure and Offspring Health

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are man-made and persistent chemicals that have been widely applied in commercial products since the 1950s. Many types of PFAS are extremely persistent in the environment and human exposure to PFAS are ubiquitous. This project funded by the NIH/NIEHS (R03ES033381) addresses an area of PFAS research that has been largely overlooked: whether paternal exposure to PFAS influences offspring growth and neurodevelopment. The Liew lab collaborated with the INUENDO cohort, a multi-country longitudinal cohort study of parents and their children from Greenland, Kharkiv (Ukraine), and Warsaw (Poland), to lead this project.