He has received multiple awards for his contributions to the field of environmental neurotoxicology such as the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Paper of the Year award, the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology’s Toshio Narahashi Graduate Student Best Presentation award, the Arab Toxicology Association’s Best Abstract award, amongst various others. Dr. Sammoura is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University, investigating novel axonal guidance cues and receptors in the developing nervous system. Today, he will be sharing some of the results of his research about the significant risk increases posed by organochlorines DDT and DDE in the pathological progression of Alzheimer’s disease.