Bruce A. Fowler

Assistant Director for Science, Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Doctoral Degree in Pathology from University of Oregon Medical School

Specialty: Toxicology of Metals, Mechanisms of Cell Injury, Molecular Biomarkers, Aquatic Toxicology

Staff scientist, NIEHS (1972 – 1987), Director, University of Maryland Program in Toxicology / Professor of Pathology(1987-2001), Senior Research Advisor (2002) / Assistant Director for Science, Division of Toxicology, ATSDR, 2003 - present. Honors: Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (1990), Fulbright Scholar / Swedish MRC Visiting Professor - Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1994-1995), Colgate-Palmolive Visiting Professor (In Vitro Toxicology) - U of Washington (1998). Member, Fulbright Scholarship review committee for Scandinavia (1999-2001). Member, AAAS Recruitment and Screening Committee - (CASE) Project 2000-. SOT Council member (2005-2007). Author/co-author-of over 200 publications on molecular mechanisms of metal toxicity / biomarkers for metal-induced cell injury. Current research is focused on the toxicology of chemical interactions involving metals including III-V semiconductors and metal -metalloid mixtures.