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Dr. Ulrike Luderer is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, University of California, Irvine (UCI). She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Medicine (School of Medicine) and Developmental & Cell Biology (Charle Dunlop School of Biological Sciences). As Director of the UCI Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, she leads initiatives to improve regional occupational and environmental health through academic-industry-government collaboration.
- MD and PhD in Neurobiology & Physiology from Northwestern University
- MPH from University of Washington
- B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and B.A. in French from Brown University
Her research is anchored in reproductive toxicology, focusing on how environmental/occupational exposures (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene, PM2.5, space radiation) disrupt ovarian function and induce transgenerational effects. Key mechanisms under investigation include reactive oxygen species (ROS) and glutathione (GSH) pathways in ovarian aging and tumorigenesis. Current projects explore ROS-GSH-lipid interactions and space radiation-induced DNA damage.
Her recent work has been recognized with the 2022 Paper of the Year in Particle and Fibre Toxicology and the 2017 Jean Spencer Felton Award. She has received sustained funding from the NIH R01ES020454 and NASA 80NSSC19K1620, among others. Dr. Luderer serves on prestigious panels including the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program Scientific Guidance Panel (Chair 2010-2015) and the National Toxicology Program Expert Panels.
As a board-certified physician in occupational/environmental medicine and internal medicine, she integrates clinical and research expertise to address environmental health disparities and reproductive endocrinology. Her lab's transgenerational studies and space radiation models have redefined understanding of ovarian toxicology mechanisms.
