Category: Alumni Spotlight

Biography Yael-Natalie H. Escobar, PhD is currently a Clinical Research Scientist I at Syner-G BioPharma Group. Her primary responsibilities include writing and conducting quality control checks of CSRs (Phase I and III), protocols, and other regulatory submissions documents while performing management tasks that accompany these projects. Yael was a 2022 Medical Writing...

Interviewed on November 26th, 2024 Biography Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal leads the Mechanistic Toxicology Group in the Chemicals in the Environment Research Section (CITE) at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. She also holds a Professorship in Integrated Systems Toxicology in the Medical Faculty at the University of...

  Could you describe your career trajectory?   My first exposure to my current field of work came during my bachelor’s program, where I completed a 6 month cooperative education fellowship at Merck in the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) group; a department I had not previously even known existed....

  April 2019 Biography: Dr. Lawrence “Lars” Trost is a Preclinical Development Consultant at the company he founded, Belleropharm, LLC.  His core expertise is assisting clients with the design and execution of toxicology studies intended to support the safety of products in development for Investigational New Drug (IND) and New...

January 2019   Biography: Dr. Scott Barros received his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill in 2003 working with Dr. Ronald Cannon and Dr. Raymond Tennant at NIEHS (Cancer Biology, National Center for Toxicogenomics). He then did a postdoctoral fellowship in renal pharmacology under Dr. John Pritchard at NIEHS. Dr. Barros...

  November 2018   Biography Michael J. Olson, Ph.D., Fellow ATS, is a Principal Toxicologist for SafeBridge Consultants, Inc. and has over 35 years of experience participating in and directing programs for occupational toxicology, chemical hazard evaluation and communication, and risk assessment. Dr. Olson earned his Ph.D. in Toxicology from...

February 2018

December 2017

October 2017

August 2017