I. Glenn Sipes

Professor and Head, University of Arizona College of Medicine

Doctoral Degree in pharmacology form the University of Pittsburgh

Specialties: Biotransformation; mechanisms chemical induced tissue injury; hepatotoxicity.

Dr. Sipes currently serves as Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. As a Burroughs Wellcome Toxicology Scholar he founded the Center for Toxicology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Sipes is active in the Society of Toxicology having served as Councilor, Secretary, Vice President and President; and as Editor of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. He was an associate editor of Life Sciences and on the editorial boards of Quality Assurance and Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Molecular Interventions. Other professional activities include serving as a Councilor: for ISSA, International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, ASPET, of the Pharmaceutical sciences section of AAAS, of which he is also a Fellow. He was a member of the NAS/NRC Committee of Toxicology and Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology and was Chairperson of the NIH Toxicology Study Section and a member of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the 13 volume series entitled Comprehensive Toxicology. From 1998-2004, Dr. Sipes served as President of the International Union of Toxicology. He is a technical advisor to the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives for the United Nations/WHO and Chair of the Research Institute for Fragrance Material’s Expert Panel. In addition he has served as a consultant and/or on advisory committees for several pharmaceutical and chemical companies.