Project Title: Phthalate Mixtures and the Interconnection of Child Neurobehavior and Obesity
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Funding NIH Institution/Center: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Grant ID: K99ES036277
Jamil M. Lane comes from a humble background, raised in Chester, PA, a small city 15 miles south of Philadelphia, PA. As a first-generation undergraduate majoring in psychology, he discovered his passion for research, where he employed Pavlovian conditioning to train lab rats to associate visual cues with rewards, thereby learning that classical conditioning is a valuable tool for studying cognitive learning and reward-seeking behavior. Dr. Lane ultimately obtained a PhD in human development with an emphasis on cognitive development and quantitative methods from the University of Rochester as a Scandling Scholar, where his dissertation research investigated the longitudinal effect of obesogenic food environments on body mass index and executive functioning in African American adolescents.
Dr. Lane is a postdoctoral fellow under Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, in the Pediatric Exposomics Program of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. As a dually trained developmental cognitive scientist and environmental epidemiologist, his interdisciplinary research integrates child development, cognitive science, exposomics, neurotoxicology, biostatistics, and pediatric environmental epidemiology. Dr. Lane’s independent research program will examine early-life obesogenic and environmental neurotoxic exposures that longitudinally program neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral dimensions using advanced statistical applications such as longitudinal latent variable modeling, chemical mixture analysis, and causal mediation analysis.
Dr. Lane is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive research lab, promoting team science, and supporting individuals from marginalized backgrounds in pursuing academic and research careers. During his postdoctoral training, he has actively mentored middle school students from Harlem, NY, through the New York Academy of Sciences Afterschool STEM Mentorship Program, introducing them to the field of environmental sciences.