MaryJane Selgrade

Dr. MaryJane Selgrade joined ICF International in August 2010, as a senior Technical Director after serving for more than 30 years with the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), culminating in her position as Chief of the Cardiopulmonary and Immunotoxicology Branch of the Environmental Public Health Division within the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory. Her responsibilities at US EPA included developing and executing research strategies to meet particular US EPA regulatory needs related to health effects in diverse areas including biotechnology, Libby asbestos (superfund), particulate matter air pollution, air toxics, indoor air, susceptible populations (primarily children), and pesticides. In her position at ICF she serves as a consultant for both government and industry (largely related to REACH) clients and has major responsibilities in the development of risk assessment strategies and documents. In addition to her current position at ICF, she is an adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Toxicology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and in the Department of Toxicology at North Carolina State University. She recently completed an 8-year term as an associate editor for Toxicological Sciences, and currently serves on the editorial boards for Inhalation Toxicology and Journal of Immunotoxicology. Her research interests include effects of environmental pollutants on infectious disease and on the induction, elicitation, and exacerbation of allergic asthma and other types of allergic diseases. She has published over 100 research papers and book chapters covering an array of topics in toxicology and risk assessment, and has organized workshops on important topics in toxicology for US EPA, Society of Toxicology, World Health Organization (WHO), and others. She has reviewed research grants and contracts for the Air Force, NIEHS, Phillip Morris, and the American Chemistry Council, and served for 6 years on the Science Advisory panel for the Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center. She received the SOT Immunotoxicology Specialty Section Career Achievement Award in 2006.

Dr. Selgrade earned her MS and PhD in Medical Microbiology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after which she spent a year doing research in viral immunology as a National Research Council fellow at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, MD and two years as a Public Health Service NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a visiting assistant Professor in the Microbiology Department at North Carolina State University before joining the US EPA as a Research Microbiologist in 1979.