Lucio G. Costa

Lucio G. Costa is Professor of Toxicology in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Parma Medical School. His research interests are in the field of neurotoxicology, particularly in the area of developmental effects and mechanisms of pesticides, alcohol, marine toxins, metals and other environmental pollutants. He has also an active research program in the area of gene-environment interactions, as they relate to susceptibility to pesticides and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Costa is the author of more than 300 publications, book chapters and books in the field of toxicology, and is a member of numerous state, national and international panels and committees dealing with toxicology and risk assessment.