The Curriculum in Toxicology at UNC

The Curriculum in Toxicology at the University of North Carolina consistently ranks among the top Toxicology programs in the country. Our outstanding members include researchers on the UNC campus and scientists located in government and private laboratories in the Research Triangle Park.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks the Curriculum in Toxicology as the top Toxicology graduate program in the USA. January 12, 2007.

Doctoral student David Szabo won the Otto Hutzinger award for the quality of submitted paper and oral presentation at the Dioxin 2008 meeting held in Birmingham, England. David was awarded a Society of Toxicology Colgate-Palmolive Grant for Student Training in Alternative Methods in 2010.

Doctoral student Emily Askew was awarded the first prize for her poster presentation at the 2009 Annual Retreat of the Curriculum in Toxicology. Also pictured is Dr. David Holbrook, a member of Emily’s committee and Director of the UNC-EPA Training Agreement. Emily received a pre-doctoral fellowship (2008-2011) from the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Program.

Katie Paul was awarded a Society of Toxicology Colgate-Palmolive Grant for Student Training in Alternative Methods in 2009 and the Pharmacology/Toxicology Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the PhRMA Foundation in 2010.

Christina Lamb was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship. A member of the first class of BBSP recruits, she joined the Curriculum in Toxicology graduate program in 2009.

First group of students recruited through BBSP (2008) who later joined the Curriculum in Toxicology doctoral program (2009). Back row: Christina Lamb, Madisa Macon, and Brian Davies. Front row: Jessica Sorrentino, Eugene Gibbs-Flournoy, Jenna Currier, and Jennifer Griggs. With them is Dr. Stephanie Padilla (USEPA), director of the student seminar course (TOXC 721) to second-year toxicology students.

Melanie Weed received one of the 2010 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Awards for her research on mechanisms underlying obesity.

Latest News

Swenberg steps down as Director of the Curriculum in Toxicology

November 01, 2010

James A. Swenberg, DVM, PhD, has served for the last 18 years as the Director of the Curriculum in Toxicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Under his outstanding leadership, the Curriculum has gained national recognition as one of the top programs offering doctoral and postdoctoral training in toxicology. There have been only two Directors since the 1979 approval of the Curriculum by the UNC Board of Governors, Dr. Tom Miya and Dr. James A. Swenberg. UNC at Chapel Hill now faces the challenge of recruiting a new Director who will be capable of continuing their work with the purpose of maintaining the highest level of teaching and training in toxicology, as well as shaping the Curriculum programs to meet emerging needs for skilled professionals in the US and abroad.

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Swenberg selected for Greenberg award

May 04, 2010

James A. Swenberg, DVM, PhD, has received one of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s major awards for faculty and alumni.

Swenberg, recipient of the Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award for excellence in teaching, research and service, was honored at the School’s annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture on April 15 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education.

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Next Seminar

Dr. Aimen Farraj
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Breathing Dirty Air and Increased Cardiovascular Risk: Approaches for Insight on Mechanism & Susceptibility

February 13, 4:00 PM
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Next Event

North Carolina Society of Toxicology Spring Meeting
February 23, 2012
US EPA Main Campus
109 T.W. Alexander Dr.
Research Triangle Park, NC