Expert and Consultant for Pulmonary Toxicity and Related Lung DiseasePulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary pathology.Lung diseases such as asthma and bronchitis.Environmental lung disease.Metal toxicity, vanadium toxicity.Carbon nanotube pulmonary toxicity.Occupational lung disease.Air pollution particles and associated lung disease.Research InterestsCellular and molecular mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis and chronic airway remodeling in asthma and bronchitis.Disruption of intracellular signaling pathways by air pollution particulate matter and metal-induced oxidative stress, particularly vanadium pentoxide.Pulmonary responses to manufactured c...

Toxicologist Consultant and Expert Witness with Worldwide ExperiencePracticing toxicologist of over 20 years providing testimony to governmental agencies, service as an industrial site crisis team member, media (BBC) consultant and services as an expert witness in the United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong in the following areas: Chemicals Accidents: Chemical and chemical exposures Pesticides and biocides Toxicology Risk Assessment: Drug toxicology and drug testing Building fires and resulting combustion products Chemical fires and explosions Plastics fires and plastic combustion by products Effects/Reactions: Drug...

Pharmaceutical Chemistry Consultant for Drug Discovery, ADME, and Drug Toxicity and Drug SafetyPharmaceutical drug discovery process and implementation.Drug discovery and medicinal chemistry.Preclinical pharmacology, ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs) and pharmaceutical toxicology and safety.Pharmaceutical drugs for anti-infectives, anti-virals, oncology and immunology.Pharmaceutical drugs for cardiovascular and metabolic disease.Pharmaceutical drugs for diabetes, obesity, aging and frailty.Due diligence assessments, including intellectual property.

Protein engineering and protein evolution related to drug resistance and molecular toxicologyRandom mutant library generation.Protein engineering.Mutagenicity assays, (Ames' test).ColE1-based plasmid regulation.DNA repair, specifically repair of reactive DNA methylation.Drug resistance: targets, evolution.Microbial genetics.Molecular pharmacology.Molecular toxicology.Undisclosed University, Assistant Professor, 2007 - PresentHead of a research team including a senior scientist, technician, graduate student and several undergraduate assistants.Obtai...

Expert and professor on environmental toxicity, teratology, developmental biology, human embryology and reproductives physiology.Environmental toxicity and developmental toxicology (teratology).Toxicology, teratology (reproductive toxicology), reproductive physiology, environmental medicine, and endocrinology.Taught courses on teratology, developmental toxicology, both general and environmental toxicology, developmental biology, human embryology, reproductive physiology, endocrinology, general physiology, and technical methods.Current research interests include investigation of mechanisms and development of assays for developmental toxici...

Ph.D. Food Science Consultant with Expertise in Food Products, Food Poisoning, and Food Regulatory IssuesFood Science and TechnologyFood SafetyFood PoisoningNatural Ingredient ClaimsFermentationAntimicrobialsProbioticsBotulismAnthraxSporesSpoilageListeria monocytogenesExpert Witness ExperienceConsultant and Expert Witness, various major food companies and law firmsNatural Ingredient Claims - furnished opinions in eight cases as defendant's expert for major food companies affirming that food ingredients such as citric acid, high fructose corn syrup, gelatin, xanthan gum, etc. are natural.Intellectual Property - provided opinion and testifie...

Lab Testing Design: Drugs-Pharmaceutical Testing, Lab Operations, Maintenance, and Quality Control of Drug Testing Labs: Toxicology, Cannabis, Bioequivalence), Regulatory Requirements, BioequivalencSummary Over 17 years of drug testing experience on the development, validation, and application of analytical methods.  Equal experience in drug testing Labs design, operation, maintenance, and quality control of drug testing labs: Toxicology, cannabis, drugs, bioequivalence), cannabis regulatory requirements, bioequivalence studies, quality control studies, analytical laboratories’ quality assurance procedures.&n...