Alea Goodmanson and Camarie Perry will be at the annual TCEQ Environmental Trade Fair & Conference this week in Austin, TX. They’re looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and meeting new people. Stop by and visit them at booth #517!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Andrea Weir has joined ToxStrategies, Inc. as a Senior Consultant and will be based in the Washington, DC area. Dr. Weir is a board certified toxicologist with 28 years of experience in toxicology, primarily in drug development. She has worked in both the contract research industry and at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). Prior to joining ToxStrategies, Dr. Weir was a regulatory toxicologist at the USFDA read more…
ToxStrategies is pleased to announce the recent publication of Principles of Toxicology: Environmental and Industrial Applications (3rd Edition), co-edited and co-authored by our Senior Science Advisor, Dr. Rob James. Dr. James co-authored three chapters, covering topics such as the general principles of toxicology, hepatotoxicity, and human health risk assessment. Dr. Janice Britt, a Senior Managing Scientist with ToxStrategies, also contributed to this publication by authoring a chapter on the properties and effects of pesticides xenical 120. A copy of read more…
ToxStrategies’ experts prepared 2 presentations for the 2015 Battelle Eighth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 12–15. Senior Scientist Dr. Jon Urban was in attendance, presenting a poster entitled Lower Passaic River RMO-8: An Alternative Human Health Risk Assessment during the Tuesday evening session, “Ecological and Human-Health Risk Assessment.” Principal Dr. Mark Harris was also in attendance, presenting ToxStrategies’ work entitled Lower Passaic River RMO-8: An Alternative Preliminary Remediation Goal during the Wednesday evening poster read more…
Washington, D.C. A National Research Council (NRC) report released on August 14, 2014 largely endorsed an earlier National Toxicology Program (NTP) review that had concluded formaldehyde is a human carcinogen. Noting the NTP program provides no criteria for determining when there is sufficient human evidence, it developed its own procedure using the expert judgment of the committee; still, the NRC panel essentially agreed with study selections and conclusions made earlier by the NTP. Importantly, nothing in the read more…
We are pleased to announce a recently published study by scientists from ToxStrategies that evaluated the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from multiple survey cycles to assess potential effects to thyroid hormones from cumulative exposures to perchlorate, nitrate, and thiocyanate. This study, titled “The effect of perchlorate, nitrate, and thiocyanate on free thyroxine for potentially sensitive subpopulations of the 2001-2002 and 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey,” was published in the Journal read more…
We are pleased to announce the publication of a recent study by ToxStrategies’ scientists that was designed to evaluate potential community-wide exposures to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air in the Barnett Shale region as a means of assessing the potential impact of shale gas production activities on human health. The publication, titled Evaluation of Impact of Shale Gas Operations in the Barnett Shale Region on Volatile Organic Compounds in Air and Potential Human Health read more…
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Borghoff has joined ToxStrategies, Inc. as a Senior Managing Scientist and she will be based in Research Triangle Park, NC. She is a board-certified toxicologist with over twenty-five years of experience designing and managing diverse research programs and regulatory-driven toxicology studies. Dr. Borghoff is a recognized expert in evaluating modes-of-action by which specific chemicals cause toxicity and cancer in rodents and understanding the metabolism and pharmacokinetics using read more…
