SOT Provides Funding for Supplemental Training

The Society of Toxicology sponsors the Supplemental Training for Education Program which provides funding to doctoral students to support participation in a workshop, training course or event which will help the students achieve their future career goals. The proposed activity should be outside the scope of their graduate program and graduate research. The next deadline for applying for STEP funding is October 9. The next deadline is May 1.  Examples of successful, previously funded proposed ideas can be found on the SOT website. For more information, please click the following link: http://www.toxicology.org/education/st/step.asp.  Good luck

Glyphosate and Eastmond in the News

Glyphosate has been in the news a lot over the past couple of years.  Most recently as the result of a jury verdict that awarded a very large sum to the plaintiff.  In 2016, Dr. David Eastmond, an ETOX faculty member, served on a WHO committee that conducted a fairly exhaustive review of the toxicological information on glyphosate.  As a result, over the past couple of years, he has been interviewed by a number of media outlets about glyphosate and cancer.  Below are links to some recent interviews.

Interview by Larry Mantle of KPPC on AirTalk
https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2018/08/13/63506/after-jury-rules-against-monsanto-in-roundup-lawsu/

Interview by Michael Krasny of KQED on its Forum program
https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101866711/jury-links-cancer-to-roundup-awards-289-million-to-groundskeeper

In addition to glyphosate, he was also interviewed about acrylamide and coffee by Kendall Powell for Knowable digital magazine.  The interview can be found here. 

Wang Research Published in Science

 Lin Wang, an alumnus of the ETOX Program is currently a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.  He did his dissertation research with Roger Atkinson and Janet Arey.  He is the corresponding author on a nice paper published in Science that describes the influence of sulfuric acid and amine precursor molecules on the formation of new particulates in Shanghai.  The article itself can be found here.  Our congratulations to Lin for this admirable recognition of his research. 

Another Alumnae photo

This spring CNAS Dean Kathryn Uhrich traveled to the Bay area and met with UC Riverside alumni working at Genentech.  Two of our alumnae, Yehong Wang and Jennifer Sasaki who work as scientists for Genentech, met for the first time at the gathering.  Below is a photo that they sent to me of their meeting.  It was great to see the two of them and hear that they are doing well. 

Alumnae photo and update - Bhat and Sankaran

Recently, Virunya Bhat, an ETOX alumna and principal scientist at NSF International, was in Singapore for a WHO meeting and was able to get together with Gayatri Sankaran, another ETOX alumna who works for the National Environment Agency of Singapore on air pollution issues.  Both are doing well.  Above is a picture of the meeting that Virunya forwarded to me.  

Camacho begins his residency

After completing his Ph.D. and working for a few years, Homero Camacho, ETOX alumnus, decided to go to medical school which he completed this spring.  He recently began a residency program in psychiatry at the UCLA-affiliated Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California.  Above is a picture of Homero (1st on the left) at this white coat ceremony as he begins his residency.  Our congratulations to Homero.  We wish him success as he begins this new step in his career and begins working full-time treating patients.

Toxicology positions at the FDA

I received the following information from my colleague Dan Levy this morning. 

Various programs within the FDA are looking to hire toxicologists.  More details about the types of positions can be found here.  Dan indicated that they would likely have some openings in the food packaging group within the coming weeks.  If interested, let me know at my UCR address and I can put you in touch with him.