Scientific Advisory Board
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Our chairman, David Hinton, is the Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality, in the Nicholas School of the Environment, at Duke University. His research focuses on environmental toxicology and heal...
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Cheng Shuk Han is a co-inventor of Vitargent’s transgenic medaka fish.
Her lab also works with zebrafish to investigate how molecules and chemicals interact in regulating the fascinating processes of...
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Thomas Braunbeck heads the Aquatic Ecology and Toxicology Group at the University of Heidelberg’s Department of Zoology. His team investigates the impact of environmental contaminants in rivers and la...
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A professor of toxicology, Ian Cotgreave has studied the toxicity of drugs and environmental chemicals, and their impact on living organisms, for many years.
As Director of Strategic Scientific Develo...
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As a professor of aquatic ecotoxicology, Daniel Schlenk’s work focuses on understanding the biochemical factors that influence susceptibility to environmental and natural chemicals.
Among other areas...
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Masato Kinoshita is an assistant professor of applied biosciences. He studies the biology, genetics, and genomics of medaka fish, as well as the use of medaka as a model organism for laboratory work. ...
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A professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore, Gong Zhiyuan has developed many transgenic lines of zebrafish and medaka fish.
He is an expert in the dev...
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As deputy director of the EPFL’s Integrative Food Science and Nutrition Centre, Stefan Meyer works to bring food and nutrition experts from different disciplines together, to collaborate on research a...
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Peter de Witte heads the Laboratory for Molecular Bio-Discovery in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences at KU Leuven.
His team uses state-of-the-art gene editing techniques t...
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Hani El-Nezami’s group studies the impacts of chemicals on human health. His research interests include the use of beneficial bacteria to fight cancer associated with exposure to dietary carcinogens a...
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Chris Kong Chu Wong is Director of the Croucher Institute for Environmental Sciences, and head of the Department of Biology at Hong Kong Baptist University.
His research covers environmental pollutio...
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Ho Kin Chung heads the Environmental Studies Programme at the Open University of Hong Kong. Besides his primary interests in red tides and phytoplankton ecology, he is involved in a wide spectrum of r...