Michelle Fiamingo Fyle

Michelle Fiamingo Fyle is a Research Fellow in the Curriculum in Toxicology & Environmental Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She works under the mentorship of Dr. Mehdi Hazari and is affiliated with environmental health research focused on air pollution and stress responses.

Her research interests center on toxicological responses to air pollution, particularly examining how non-environmental factors like psychosocial stress and housing conditions modify these responses. Her work bridges environmental medicine, stress physiology, and cardiopulmonary toxicology with a strong emphasis on real-world exposure scenarios.

Analysis of her publication record shows a clear research trajectory focused on wildfire smoke exposure and its health impacts, with particular attention to how housing conditions modulate physiological responses. Her recent work increasingly examines sex-specific differences and combines wildfire smoke with other environmental stressors like high temperature.

• Recipient of The Leon and Bertha Golberg Postdoctoral Fellowship

Her research program demonstrates strong continuity in investigating environmental exposures through controlled laboratory studies using rodent models, with growing complexity in examining multiple simultaneous stressors and their differential impacts across biological variables.