Information Resources in Toxicology, Volume 1

Philip Wexler has written and edited numerous publications related to toxicology and toxico-informatics, as well as taught and otherwise lectured globally on these topics. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Toxicology including the current, 4th edition (2023) since its inception as well as Information Resources in Toxicology (Elsevier. 5th ed. 2020), and Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis. 2011). He has served as Associate Editor for Toxicology Information and Resources for Elsevier's journal, Toxicology and edited special issues on Digital Information and Tools. Phil is also overseeing a monographic series on Toxicology History. Volumes have been published on Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, modern clinical toxicology, risk assessment, alternative test methods, food and nutrition, and disasters, with more in the planning stages. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Taylor and Francis journal, Global Security: Health, Science, and Policy and a past recipient of the US Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) Public Communications Award. Phil recently retired from a long federal career as a Technical Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, within its Specialized Information Services Division (SIS). His initial position at NLM was as a Fellow of its Associate Program and early work included a brief stint in the Reference Services Section. A recipient of the NLM Regents Award for Scholarly or Technical Achievement and the Distinguished Technical Communication Award of the Washington chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, he was team leader for the development of the ToxLearn online multi-module tutorials, a joint activity with the SOT. Phil had also been project officer for the LactMed file on drugs and lactation, and the IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) and ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk) risk assessment databases. Additionally, Phil had been the guiding force behind, and federal liaison to, the World Library of Toxicology, Chemical Safety, and Environmental Health (WLT) prototype, a free global Web portal that provided the scientific community and public with links to major government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, professional societies, and other groups addressing issues related to toxicology, public health, and environmental health prior to its migration to the INND/Toxipedia group. This multilingual tool, fed by information from a roster of international Country Correspondents, has been praised as a successful test resource for overcoming barriers to the sharing of information between countries, enhancing collaboration, and minimizing duplication. Currently on hiatus, it awaits a visionary funding source to become operational. A trustee of the Toxicology Education Foundation (TEF), Phil had previously served as its federal liaison. He is a past Chair of SOT’s World Wide Web Advisory Team, and active in its Ethical, Legal, Forensics, and Social Issues Specialty Section. He was a member of the Education and Communications Work Group of the CDC/ATSDR’s National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposure. A co-developer of the Toxicology History Room, he is co-founder and was federal liaison to the Toxicology History Association. For many years he organized and emceed the popular Toxicology Quiz Bowl at the annual SOT meetings. In addition to pursuing toxicology-related activities in his retirement, Phil is happy to have more time to embrace other lifelong interests. He is the author of five poetry collections, a mosaic artist, and a cactus and succulent enthusiast. Steven G. Gilbert, PhD, DABT, Director and Founder of the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders (INND), has a Ph.D. in toxicology and is a Diplomat of American Board of Toxicology. He is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington. Dr. Gilbert’s research has focused on neurobehavioral effects of low-level exposure to lead and mercury on the developing nervous system. His book, A Small Dose of Toxicology- The Health Effects of Common Chemicals was published in 2004 and the 2nd edition is available for free as an E-book (www.asmalldoseoftoxicology.org). The book was recently translated and published in Chinese and has been translated into Arabic, German, and Spanish. He started the wiki based web site Toxipedia (www.toxipedia.org) which includes a suite of sites that put scientific information in the context of history, society, and culture (temporily offline) (sgilbert@innd.org). Asish Mohapatra has 22 years professional work experience in the multi-disciplinary areas of toxicology, health risk assessment, chemical fate, transport and transformation and climate change impacts in permafrost affected soils, computational toxicology, systems biology, biomedical informatics and data fusion tools, methodologies and framework applications in toxicology and health risk analysis. Asish has carried out numerous critical reviews of environmental health risk analysis projects, managed and led chemical toxicology reviews, exposure analysis and risk assessment guidelines and methodologies development. He has completed critical reviews of toxicological and health risk assessments of contaminated sites, indoor and outdoor air quality, soil and water quality analysis; toxicology and health risk assessment database developments; Developed and reviewed toxicological reference values and soil quality guidelines for petroleum and chlorinated hydrocarbons, metals and metalloids. Additional expertise in CBRN(Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear), energetics materials and Toxic Industrial Contaminants and consequence management; multiple data fusion models for advanced dose response assessment methodologies, assessment of complex chemical mixtures; health risks from a local and global health and security perspective Asish has expertise in emerging informatics tools in collaborative predictive toxicology and risk assessment, computational toxicology and review of web 2.0 and 3.0 tools and applications in integrating data resources in toxicology and environmental public health risk analysis projects Maintained and developed relationships with regional, federal, and international agencies including community groups to share information resources in the emerging environmental health toxicology and public health risk analysis in residential, commercial and industrial lands and interfaces settings. Asish is a co-editor in chief of Global Security: Health, Science, and Policy, an interdisciplinary and a specialized journal under Routledge, Taylor and Francis, focusing on many disciplines intersecting health, environment, security, science and policy. Dr. Sol Bobst, PhD, DABT has participated in several risk assessment reviews. He is a ten year member of the Society of Toxicology and the past president of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues specialty section. He graduated Magna Cum Laude, University Honors with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Drake University in Des Moines, IA. His Doctoral degree is from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, and he holds a board certification from the American Board of Toxicology. Antoinette Hayes is a preclinical drug safety toxicologist at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. She has an expertise in discovery toxicology (small molecules, biologics, siRNA) and risk assessment/mitigation for early research targets. She's an avid science historian and has authored several book chapters on the history of toxicology and is a founding member of the Toxicology History Association. Sara T. Humes recently graduated from the University of Florida with her PhD in Public Health, One Health concentration. Her dissertation research focused on emerging contaminants and novel mechanisms of toxicity, specifically the impact of carbon nanomaterial exposure on the host immune response and the role of protein adduct formation in the development of cumulative neurotoxicity after exposure to electrophilic chemicals. She has contributed to several articles and book chapters related to the nanotoxicology work, with plans for additional publications in the next year. Sara is a student member of both the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and is a trustee for the Toxicology Education Foundation. She has also received the Outstanding Student Research Award in the University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health, the Delores A. Auzenne Dissertation Award from the Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives at the University of Florida, and the Student Travel Award from the SOT Occupational and Public Health Specialty Section. At the time of publishing, she is looking forward to beginning her career in the fields of toxicology and public health.