Other Awards and Honors
2009 Elected Positions and Offices
Irv Schultz Nominated to NRC Committee on Tetrachloroethylene
Irv Schultz was nominated to the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Committee on Tetrachloroethylene, which is conducting a review of EPA's toxicological assessment of tetrachloroethylene. His research interests cover both ecological and human health issues and uses toxicokinetic methods in conjunction with molecular/biochemical tools to understand the cellular mechanisms and physiological processes determining the retention and adverse effects of contaminants. Highlights of his research efforts include studies of the disposition of drinking water disinfection byproducts in human volunteers, non-human primates and rodent models; development of computational models for the salmon brain-pituitary-gonadal axis and the metabolism and disposition of environmental pollutants in fish, with an emphasis on interspecies scaling. (announced 6/1/2009)