Center for PFAS Research
May 4, 2021
Dr. Angela Wilson s research highlights insights about the potential impact of PFAS on human, animal, and plant health, their transport and absorption in soils, water, and air, and potential mitigation strategies.
Dr. Angela Wilson is a John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Her group investigates several different aspects of PFAS interactions using a variety of computational chemistry approaches to gain molecular-level insight about (1) their potential impact on human, animal, and plant health; (2) their transport and absorption in the environment in soils, water, and air; (3) the impact of current replacement compounds; and (4) possible mitigation strategies. Among their recent work, they have investigated several human protein receptors to which long-chain and short-chain replacement PFAS compounds bind. It is this binding that can lead to the overaction of the protein; the overaction of the specific nuclear