Systems Toxicology

This cross-cutting training area is a new direction of this program moving towards promotion of multidisciplinary interactions in the study of toxicity-related datasets that increase rapidly in their complexity.

Systems Toxicology is defined as the study of the perturbation of biological systems by chemicals and stressors, monitoring changes in molecular expression and conventional toxicological parameters, and iteratively integrating response data to describe the functioning organism. Systems toxicology provides an integrated and iterative assessment of the toxicity of agents based on the analysis of -omics (genomic, proteomic and metabolomic, etc.) data together with classic toxicology endpoints. One aspect of this approach is to develop and apply metabolomic, proteomic, genomic and other data-rich analyses to construct an integrated network of molecular changes as a function of exposure to a toxic insult.

Curriculum Members

Andersen, Melvin E., PhD
Brouwer, Kim R., PhD
Cordeiro-Stone, Marila, PhD
Crofton, Kevin M., PhD
Devlin, Robert D., PhD
Fry, Rebecca, PhD
Graves, Lee M., PhD
Harry, G. Jean, PhD
Hazucha, Milan J., MD, PhD
Hunter, E. Sidney, PhD
Kaufmann, William K., PhD
Luebke, Robert W., PhD
Nylander-French, Leena A., PhD
Perou, Charles M., PhD
Ramsden, Dale A., PhD
Randell, Scott H., PhD
Rogers, John M., PhD
Rusyn, Ivan I., MD, PhD
Samet, James M., PhD
Threadgill, David W., PhD
Tropsha, Alexander, PhD
Weissman, Bernard E., PhD
Wilson, Elizabeth M., PhD
Wolf, Douglas C., DVM, PhD
Zeisel, Steven H., MD, PhD