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JAIME ROSS Assistant Professor Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience

of chronic microplastic exposure in individuals with a predisposition to diseases and potential impacts from microplastics on early developmental life stages. Ross highlights the importance of exploring what happens after exposure and whether there are potentially biological defense mechanisms, asking the questions: “What happens if you suddenly stop being exposed? Is our body able to expel microplastics or defend against exposure?” Implementation of this project would rely on a range of URI partners such as Assistant Professor Coleen Suckling, fisheries, animal, and veterinary science, and Visiting Associate Professor Andrew Davies, biological sciences, both contributors to URI’s Plastics COLAB.

“What happens if you suddenly stop being exposed? Is our body able to expel microplastics or defend against exposure?”

- Jaime Ross

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