Research Interest :

· Environmental transport and fate of emerging contaminants

· Tools for human exposure assessment

· PFAS toxicity and toxicokinetics

· Toxicity mechanism modeling

Public Service :

· Initial Review Editor, Journal of Environmental Science

Featured Publications :

· Shan Niu*;Zhaoming Dong; Yang Zhang; Carla Ng; Alan Ducatman. Impact of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Exposure on Statin Medication Efficacy: Clinical and Public Health Implications. Medicine Plus, 2025, 2, 100069 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medp.2024.100069

· Shan Niu*, Minghao Qiu, Li Li, Chenfei Qu, and Da Zhang. Climate actions, persistent pollutants, and human health: A call for integrated assessments. Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58, 36, 15885-15887 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c07707

· Shan Niu*, Zhaoming Dong, Li Li, and Carla Ng*. Identifying long-term health risks associated with environmental chemical incidents. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024, 478 (1):135432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135432

· Shan Niu, Xinran Zhu, Ruiwen Chen, Aaron Winchell, Peng Gao, Aaron Barchowsky, Jeanine M Buchanich, and Carla Ng*. Personal Wearable Sampler for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Exposure Assessment. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2024, 11, 4, 301–307 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00026

· Shan Niu, Yuexin Cao, Ruiwen Chen, Megha Bedi, Alison P. Sanders, Alan M. Ducatman, and Carla Ng*. A state-of-the-science review of interactions of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) interactions with renal transporters in health and disease: implications for population variability in PFAS toxicokinetics. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11885

· Shan Niu*, Xi Chen, Ruiwen Chen, Kimberly J Hageman, Yun Zou, Li, Zhizhen, Zhang, Carla Ng and Liang Dong. Understanding inter-individual variability in short-chain chlorinated paraffin concentrations in human blood. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023, 443, 130235 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130235

· Shan Niu, Ruiwen Chen, Kimberly J Hageman*, Rebecca McMullin, and Steve Wing. Understanding impacts of organic contaminants from aquaculture on the marine environment using a chemical fate model. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023, 443, 130090 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130090

· Shan Niu, Tom Harner*, Ruiwen Chen, Mark Parnis, Amandeep Saini, and Kimberly Hageman. Guidance on the Application of Polyurethane Foam Disk Passive Air Samplers for Measuring Nonane and Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins in Air: Results from a Screening Study in Urban Air. Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 11693-11702. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c02428

· Shan Niu, Wuqun Tao, Ruiwen Chen, Kimberly J Hageman*, Chaofei Zhu, Ran Zheng, and Liang Dong. Using polychlorinated naphthalene concentrations in soil from a southeast China e-waste recycling area in a novel screening-level multi-pathway human cancer risk assessment. Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 10, 6773-6782. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c00128

· Shan Niu, Ruiwen Chen, Kimberly J Hageman*, Yun Zou, Liang Dong, Ran Zheng, Xiaohui Wang, and Reti Hai. Disentangling the contributions of urban and production sources in short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffin concentrations in a complex source region. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 405, 124117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124117

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