Rate My Professor Laura Vandenberg

Her research program investigates the health effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, focusing on how low-dose exposures to chemicals and mixtures during critical developmental windows alter gene expression, cell differentiation, and tissue organization, predisposing individuals to adult diseases including breast cancer, obesity, and infertility. She studies plasticizers, flame retardants, and other ubiquitous endocrine disruptors, highlighting limitations in traditional toxicology assays and proposing improvements to hazard assessment and risk evaluation practices. Vandenberg is author on more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and 18 book chapters, with highly cited publications such as 'Hormones and endocrine-disrupting chemicals: low-dose effects and nonmonotonic dose responses' (Endocrine Reviews, 2012), 'Human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)' (Reproductive Toxicology, 2007), and 'Consensus on the key characteristics of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a basis for hazard identification' (Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2020). Funded by the National Institutes of Health, Sudoc LLC, and foundations including the Cornell Douglas Foundation, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, JPB Foundation, and Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition, her influential work has earned recognition as one of the world's most highly cited researchers in 2022 by Clarivate and invitations for keynote addresses and media interviews.