Dr. Robert Wright

• Event

  2026 Summit

• Talk Title

  Toxins, Technology, and Tomorrow: Applying Exposome Research for Real-World Health

Affiliation

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Links

• https://substack.com/@sinaiexposomics

• https://mountsinaiexposomics.org/

• https://www.facebook.com/SinaiExposomics/

• https://www.instagram.com/sinaiexposomics/

• https://x.com/SinaiExposomics

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-o-wright/

Bio:

Robert Wright, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician, medical toxicologist, and environmental epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is the Ethel H. Wise Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine, Co-Director of the Institute for Exposomic Research, and Principal Investigator of an ongoing longitudinal birth cohort in Mexico City (Programming Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment and Social Stress–PROGRESS) in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. He also founded the MATCH (Metals Assessment Targeting Community Health) study in Tar Creek, Oklahoma. Dr. Wright studies exposomics, chemical mixtures, epigenetics and the role of social stressors as modifiers of chemical toxicity. He has published over 500 research studies and has served on numerous international and national committees and advisory boards. Dr. Wright founded the Senator Frank Lautenberg Laboratory of Environmental Health Sciences at Mount Sinai in 2014 and in 2022 launched the “Exposomic in Precision Medicine” program as part of Mount Sinai’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program. The program is designed to make the environment an integral part of precision medicine initiatives with the goal of bringing it into clinical training as a tool for optimally determining treatment options and variable individual responses to treatment.