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Joel Pounds

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Dr. Joel Pounds is a Senior Staff Scientist in Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Biological Sciences Division and Science Advisor to the Environmental Biomarkers Initiative at Battelle - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA. Dr. Pounds has directed research programs in government (National Center for Toxicological research, 1977-1985); National Laboratories (Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1985-1990), and Academia (Wayne State University, 1990-1999). He has focused his research on the cellular and molecular toxicity of lead and other metals, metal-metal interaction, and mathematical modeling of the response to metal mixtures. Dr. Pounds' current research includes use of mass-spectrometry based proteomic and NMR-based metabonomic instrumentation for characterization of biological responses to airborne toxicants including nanomaterials.

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Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Toxicology, 1977
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Toxicology, 1973
B.S., Olivet Nazarene College, Zoology/Chemistry, 1971

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Galya Orr has her nanotoxicology research on particle-cell interactions featured on the cover of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. More...
Jason McDermott is a primary editor of Computational Systems Biology. The book contains sections on network components, network inference, network dynamics, function and evolutionary system biology, and computational infrastructure for systems biology.
Rick Corley and Katrina Waters will have key leadership roles in Pollution Health Risk Studies being led by Oregon State University under a new Superfund Basic Research Program funded by the NIEHS. Joel Pounds will participate on the internal Advisory Committee. More...

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