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Collaborative Research Area on Developmental Toxicology

Coordinator: Susan J. Hemingway, Ph.D. & Thomas Burbacher, Ph.D.

The general goal of this CRA is to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms by which developmental toxicants affect the central nervous system during prenatal and postnatal growth. Projects are designed to promote research that reveals the neurobehavioral effects associated with exposure to alcohol, environmental chemicals, and therapeutic drugs during pregnancy and childhood, to develop procedures for evaluating the risk of developmental toxicants, to promote adequate policies to protect public health, and to educate health care providers and the general public on the teratogenic potential of alcohol, drugs, and chemicals in an effort to prevent IDD.

Key Faculty Investigators

• Thomas Burbacher, Ph.D., Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Co-Coordinator
• Susan J. Hemingway, Ph.D., Professor, Epidemiology and Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics, Co-Coordinator
• Heather Carmichael Olson, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Lucio Costa, Pharm.D., Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
• Julia Yue Cui, Ph.D., DABT, Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
• Elaine Faustman, Ph.D., Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
• Clement Furlong, Ph.D., Research Professor, Medical Genetics
• Anne Hing, M.D., Professor, Pediatrics
• Nina Isoherranen, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmaceutics
• Tracy Jirikowic, Ph.D., Professor Rehabilitation Medicine
• Joel D. Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Medicine
• Ali Murat Maga, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics
• David Marcinek, Ph.D, Professor, Radiology
• Erin Masterson, MPH, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
• Todd Richards, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Radiology
• Dennis Shaw, M.D., Professor, Radiology
• Zhengui Xia, Ph.D., Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
• Larry S. Zweifel, Ph.D., Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pharmacology