Toxicology Training Faculty
About 60 faculty members participate in the Ph.D. Program in Toxicology.
Other faculty contribute to the program through teaching, serving on thesis advisory committees or seminar committees, by contributing to the training of postdoctoral fellows, and by providing research resources, but do not currently serve as primary mentors for Ph.D. students.
They include faculty with a clinical emphasis or major administrative or research support responsibilities, more senior faculty who no longer wish to serve as primary mentors to Ph.D. students, as well as more junior investigators whose independent research programs are not yet fully established.
* Thesis Advisors
Neurodevelopmental Disorders & Neurodegenerative Diseases
Deborah A. Cory-Slechta* (environmental neurotoxicants as risk factors)
James R. Campbell (environmental lead exposure and bone density in children)
Philip W. Davidson (developmental and neurological effects of mercury)
Harris Andrew Gelbard* (molecular and electrophysiologic mechanisms of synaptic plasticity)
Gail V. W. Johnson* (molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration)
Karl D. Kieburtz (motor complications in Parkinson’s disease)
Margot Mayer-Proschel* (CNS precursor cells and derivatives in human disease paradigms)
Gary J. Myers (prenatal exposure to methylmercury)
Mark Noble* (neuronal degeneration)
Michael. K. O’Banion* (Alzheimer’s disease pathology)
Lisa A. Opanashuk* (toxicant exposure and brain development)
Sally Thurston (statistical problems arising in environmental health research)
Mark J. Utell (human clinical studies of the health effects of air pollution)
Edwin Van Wijngaarden (epidemiology of occupational and environmental exposures)
Gene Watson (influence of toxic environmental compounds on saliva and dental caries)
Bernard Weiss (neurobiology and behavior)
Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Diseases
Günter Oberdörster* (biological effects of airborne environmental particles)
Patricia R. Chess (regulation of pulmonary growth and repair)
David A. Dean* (models of acute lung injury and asthma)
Alison Elder* (toxicology of inhaled ultrafine particles)
Jacob N. Finkelstein* (cellular responses to pulmonary injury)
Mark W. Frampton* (cardiovascular effects of ultrafine particles)
Steve N. Georas* (asthma and obstructive lung diseases; clinical immunology)
Carl Johnston (childhood pulmonary susceptibility to environmental contaminants)
B. Paige Lawrence* (environmental agents as modifiers of host response to infection)
Thomas J. Mariani (genetic mechanisms of susceptibility to chronic lung diseases)
Michael A. O’Reilly* (DNA damage signaling in oxidative lung injury)
Richard P. Phipps* (role of fibroblasts in lung injury)
Gloria S. Pryhuber* (prevention and treatment of inflammatory lung disease)
Arshad Rahman* (signalling mechanisms involved in lung injury)
Irfan Rahman* (oxidant and cigarette smoke-mediated chromatin remodeling)
Patricia J. Sime* (environmentally-induced lung inflammation and scarring)
David J.Topham* (virus infections of the respiratory tract)
Mark J. Utell (human clinical studies of the health effects of air pollution)
Wojciech Zareba* (environmental influences on cardiovascular diseases)
Musculoskeletal Diseases
J. Edward Puzas* (molecular and cellular biology of the skeletal system)
Brendan F. Boyce* (regulation of the formation, activation and survival of osteoclasts)
Regis J. O’Keefe* (lead’s effects on chondrocyte differentiation and skeletal development)
Randy N. Rosier (bone health, osteoporosis)
Edward M. Schwarz* (inflammation and environmental-induced bone loss)
Michael Zuscik (lead-induced changes in skeletal growth)
Immunotoxicology and Immune-mediated Diseases
Jacob N. Finkelstein* (cellular responses to pulmonary injury)
Thomas A. Gasiewicz* (receptor-mediated modulation of gene expression)
Steve N. Georas* (asthma and obstructive lung diseases; clinical immunology)
B. Paige Lawrence* (environmental agents as modifiers of host response to infection)
Richard P. Phipps* (role of fibroblasts in lung injury)
David J.Topham* (virus infections of the respiratory tract
Reproductive and Developmental Disorders
Philip W. Davidson (developmental and neurological effects of mercury)
Thomas A. Gasiewicz* (receptor-mediated modulation of gene expression)
B. Paige Lawrence* (environmental agents as modifiers of host response to infection)
Richard K. Miller* (chemical-induced birth defects and altered placental function)
Gary J. Myers (prenatal exposure to methylmercury)
Michael A. O’Reilly* (DNA damage signaling in oxidative lung injury)
Gene Watson (influence of toxic environmental compounds on saliva and dental caries
Molecular Modifiers of Disease
Chawnsang Chang* (molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer progression)
David A. Dean* (models of acute lung injury and asthma)
Robert S. Freeman* (early molecular events triggering cell death)
Thomas A. Gasiewicz* (receptor-mediated modulation of gene expression)
B. Paige Lawrence* (environmental agents as modifiers of host response to infection)
Mahin D. Maines* (regulation of signaling molecules in the brain)
Michael A. O’Reilly* (transforming growth factor-beta and p53 in lung development)
Jennifer L. Young (inflammatory responses associated with lung injury)
Epidemiological, Occupational, Community Outreach and Education
Shaw-Ree Chen (community outreach and educational programs)
Alan E. Friedman (proteomics and the nature of disease)
Li-Shan Huang (nonparametric curve estimations)
Ollivier Hyrien (stochastic processes and their biological applications)
Katrina S. Korfmacher (community outreach and education programs)
Dina G. Markowitz (community outreach and education programs)
David Oakes (epidemiology and experimental therapeutics)
Sally Thurston (statistical problems arising in environmental health research)
Mark J. Utell (human clinical studies of the health effects of air pollution)
Edwin Van Wijngaarden (epidemiology of occupational and environmental exposures)
John O’Donoghue (forensic toxicology)
Some names appear more than once, representing the breadth of the person’s research interests.
