A Department of Health and Society professor has received an award honouring her achievements in research.
Assistant Professor Élyse Caron-Beaudoin was the 2024 recipient of the University of Toronto Scarborough New Scholar Award – Sciences from the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation.
The award recognizes outstanding research activities and achievements of early career faculty at UTSC. The program aims to support and celebrate research with not only scholarly significance but also an impact beyond academia, and individuals who contribute in a significant way to the research profile and academic environment of UTSC.
“I’m very grateful to receive the 2024 University of Toronto Scarborough New Scholar Award – Sciences,” says Prof. Caron-Beaudoin. “I want to thank the Department for nominating me, as well as my mentors, community partners, colleagues and students who all significantly contribute to our research endeavors”.
Prof. Caron-Beaudoin’s research is focused on assessing the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on health. She is currently leading multiple projects, including on exposure to environmental contaminants associated with unconventional natural gas operations during pregnancy and mechanisms of toxicity associated with exposure to these contaminants; associations between proximity to oil and gas wells and various health outcomes in British Columbia and in Ontario; and the role of airborne microbes and pollutants in the inflammatory response of asthma in Northern and Southern Canada. She is also working on the development of sex-specific co-culture cellular models of the human airway for application in toxicity screening.