Program - Society of Toxicology

50 th Anniversary Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
SPECIal Events
2011 Award Recipients
AstraZeneca Traveling Lectureship Award
Saber Hussain, Ph.D., ATS, is the
2011 AstraZeneca Traveling
Lectureship Award recipient. The
award recognizes excellence in
research and service in toxicology and
enables a lecture tour of Europe to
promote collaborations between
European and North American
toxicologists.
Dr. Hussain is Group Leader for the
Saber Hussain Nanotoxicology Section at the Air
Force Research Laboratory where
he leads a team of fifteen members in conducting in vitro
toxicity evaluation of nanomaterials. His current research
assesses toxicity of engineered nanomaterials in unique
in vitro co-culture models representative of potential target
organs using a spectrum of toxicity end points.
Since 1999, Dr. Hussain has been an adjunct faculty member
at the Wright State University (WSU), University of Dayton
(UD) and Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) where
he has been involved in teaching toxicology courses and
presenting training courses. He is a recognized mentor
at the Wright State University and University of Dayton
where he is affiliated as faculty, and in the Wright Scholar
program, NRC, and DAGSI.
Dr. Hussain’s lecture itinerary will serve to familiarize
research related to nanotoxicity at both industrial and
academic institutions in Europe with the objective to
establish productive relationships and collaborations
with European Scientists. His goal is to gain a better
understanding of the European view points on nanotoxicity
testing using in vitro models, risk assessment and policy
of nanomaterials in particular; strengthen collaboration
with European colleagues; and provide great opportunities
to leverage cutting-edge technology that benefits the U.S.
The Society recognizes Dr. Saber Hussain with the 2011
AstraZeneca Traveling Lectureship Award.
Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research
Training in Alternative Methods
Vijay More, M.S., University of Rhode
Island, Kingston, RI
Project Title: Modeling Diabetes,
Obesity, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver
Disease in Mouse Hepatocytes to Aid in
Prediction of Drug-Induced Liver Injury
Host Institution: University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Colgate-Palmolive Grants for Alternative Research
Patrick Allard, Ph.D., Harvard School of
Public Health, Boston, MA
Project Title: Design of a High-
Throughput Screen for Chemicals That
Cause Meiotic Aneuploidy
Hao Zhu, Ph.D., University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Project Title: Predictive Quantitative
Structure Activity Relationship
(QSAR) Modeling of Reproductive and
Developmental Toxicity Using Integrated
Chemical and Biological (HTS Profiles)
Descriptors of Molecules
Colgate-Palmolive Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
in In Vitro Toxicology
Cassandra Deering Rice, Ph.D.,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Project Title: TRPA1 As a Molecular
Mediator of Toxicities by Diesel Exhaust
Particles (DEP)
Host Institution: University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah
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