Janice Chambers

William L. Giles Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University

Specialty: Pesticide toxicology with major emphases on neurotoxicology, the metabolism of pesticides, levels of exposure of people to pesticides, and predicting the effects of mixtures of pesticides

Dr. Janice Chambers is a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University. She has experience in pesticide toxicology with major emphases on neurotoxicology, the metabolism of pesticides, levels of exposure of people to pesticides, and predicting the effects of mixtures of pesticides. In addition to holding Fellowship in the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, she also received board certification through the American Board of Toxicology. She is serving or has served on the executive boards of several scientific organizations including the Society of Toxicology, the Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society, the NRC Committee on Toxicology, and the two toxicology certification organizations. She has also served on several advisory and review panels, including study sections for the NIH, the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act for the USEPA and the Human Studies Review Board for the USEPA. She has been the Principal Investigator of over $20 million in federally-funded competitive grants, and has published over 70 articles in scientific journals and over 190 abstracts from conference proceedings.