As Senior Health, and Environmental Professionals we have the knowledge and skills necessary and appropriate to conduct basic and applied research programs in inhalation/pulmonary toxicology, biochemical neurotoxicology, reproductive and developmental toxicology, exposure modeling, exposure assessment, chemical pathology, toxicokinetics, radiation toxicology, molecular carcinogenesis, and risk assessments.
Environmental Toxicology involves the scientific study of the entry, distribution, biotransformation and mechanism of the action of chemical agents that are harmful to the body. Our services interprets environmental toxicology as the study of the effects and mechanisms of action of hazardous chemicals in food, air, water and soil in the home, the workplace and the community. It considers experimentally and theoretically such diverse research problems as:
- New scientific approaches to toxicological evaluation of environmental chemicals such as air and water pollutants, food additives, industrial wastes and agricultural adjuvants at the molecular, cellular and organism levels;
- Mechanisms of action in chemical toxicity;
- The molecular pathology of tissue injury in acute and chronic toxicity.
Our Senior Team also uses Exposure Sciences which involves the study of human exposures to environmental contaminants in different media such as air, water, and food and via multiple routes including inhalation, ingestion, and dermal absorption. Risk Assessment combines knowledge obtained from toxicological and exposure studies to come to conclusions about the risks to human health. Research in the Exposure Sciences and Risk Assessment Track includes:
- New approaches to the evaluation of human exposures to environmental chemicals, including exposure modeling and biomonitoring.
- Scientific principles involved in evaluating risks to human health from environmental exposures.