| Dr. Castranova is the chief of the Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, NIOSH Health Effects Laboratory Division, in Morgantown, WV. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. degree in physiology and biophysics from West Virginia University. CDC presented the 2008 Charles C. Shepard Award for Lifetime Scientific Achievement to Dr. Castranova on June 6, 2008, for a body of distinguished scientific work by a CDC employee that contributes to public health. NIOSH, the federal agency legislatively established under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 that conducts research to prevent work-related injury, illness, and death, is part of CDC.
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Chuck Geraci
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
| Dr. Charles Geraci is Coordinator of the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center and is Chief of the Document Development Branch. He has over 30 years of Industrial Hygiene practice experience that has included the federal government, consulting, and private industry. Dr. Geraci earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Michigan State University. He is Certified by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene in both the Comprehensive Practice and the Chemical Aspects of Industrial Hygiene and is a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Dr. Geraci manages a number of nanotechnology projects in the Institute and is responsible for the development of workplace guidelines, including the document “Approaches to Safe Nanotechnology”. He sponsors the NIOSH nanotechnology field team that is conducting visits to nanomaterial producers and users to characterize exposures, evaluate controls, and develop best practices.
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Laurie Locascio
National Institute of Standards and Technology
| Dr. Laurie E. Locascio is the Chief of the Biochemical Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. In this position, she oversees a research portfolio that includes major programs in measurements and standards for forensic human identity and biometrics, clinical genetics/genomics, bioassay methods, gene expression technologies, DNA damage and repair, biosecurity, nanotoxicity, quantitiative cell metrology, biomarker validation, and biomolecular structure and function. She received her M.Sc. in bioengineering from the University of Utah, and Ph.D. in toxicology and pharmacology from the University of Maryland Baltimore medical school. She has published ~110 scientific papers, and holds 7 patents with 4 additional pending. Some of her honors and awards include the American Chemical Society Arthur F. Findeis Award, U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal, U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award, and the NIST Applied Research Award. She is the Past Chair of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, and currently serves as Chair of the ISO/TC229 Nanotechnologies U.S. Technical Activities Group/Working Group 3 on Environment, Safety and Health.
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Jeffrey A. Fagan
National Institute of Standards and Technology
| Polymers Division, NIST
Chemical Engineer, Complex Fluids Group
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2000
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Jeffery A. Steevens
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
| Jeffery A. Steevens, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist (ST) in Biotechnology at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He leads the Army’s research on the environmental risk of military nanotechnologies including a multi-disciplinary research cluster focusing on the fate, transport, toxicology, and risk predictions of military nanomaterials. In addition, he is the Director of the ERDC’s Center for Advanced Research and Materials Analysis (CARMA) that has extensive capabilities in materials characterization and materials science. He is an active member of several national organizations including the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, American Chemical Society, and Society of Toxicology. Dr. Steevens is a Technical Advisor for Nanomaterials Working Group for the Chemical and Material Risk Management Directorate of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense. He is also a founding steering member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry nanomaterials advisory group. He has participated on several advisory or technical review panels for US EPA Office of Pesticides, Pollution, and Toxics, as well the Office of Research and Development. He co-directed a NATO-sponsored advanced research workshop on nanomaterials 2009. He is currently a member of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) NEHI working group and is a leading author of the 2010 NNI strategy. Dr. Steevens obtained his bachelors degree in biochemistry from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1994 and his doctorate degree in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Mississippi in 1999. Dr. Steevens has actively published the results of his work and has 36 peer-reviewed journal publications and 20 book chapters and technical reports.
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Alan Kennedy
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
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Alan Kennedy, M.S., is a research ecotoxicologist in the Environmental Laboratory at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Vicksburg, MS, USA. Mr. Kennedy is a principal investigator on the Sustainable Materials Research Team in the Effects Processes - Risk Branch. His training is in novel methods for measuring the exposure and effects of environmental contaminants to biological receptors. He leads or is involved in projects studying the toxicological implications of dredged material and contaminated sediments, invasive species control, effects of metals on ranges and the environmental implications of nanomaterials projected for use in Defense applications. He has more than 18 peer-reviewed publications on research topics including nanomaterials risk, effects of coal mining, invasive species control, sediment bioassay methods and new methods in toxicological assessments. Mr. Kennedy earned his B.S. in Environmental Biology / Zoology from Michigan State University and his M.S. in Aquatic Toxicology from Virginia Polytechnic Instituted and State University.
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Anthony Bednar
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
| Anthony Bednar, Ph.D., is Research Chemist in the Environmental Laboratory Environmental Chemistry Branch at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and serves as the senior Team Leader for Environmental Chemistry. His research includes speciation and geochemistry of metals in complex environmental systems. Specifically, his work focuses on hyphenated separation techniques, such as liquid chromatography and field flow fractionation, interfaced to inductively coupled plasma detection methods. These ultra sensitive separation methods have been applied to arsenic, selenium, chromium, tungsten, as well as metal nanoparticles, in biological and geochemical media. He earned a PhD in geochemistry from the Colorado School of Mines and was a research chemist in the Methods Research and Development Program of the US Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory.
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Mark Chappell
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
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Mark Chappell, Ph.D., is a Research Soil Scientist in the Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC), Vicksburg, MS. Dr. Chappell is a soil chemist by training. He serves as the leader of the Soil & Sediment Geochemistry Team in ERDC, Co-Technical Lead in the Nanotechnology: Environmental Sustainability research focus area, and a member of the Technical Advisory Team for the Center for Advanced Research and Materials Analysis (CARMA). His research focuses on the colloidal behavior and environmental fate of nanomaterials in environmentally relevant matrices. He earned his Ph.D. in soil science at Iowa State University and was an Oak Ridge Institute Science and Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Chappell currently serves on a number of national and international committees, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Quality, and Chair-elect for the Soils and Environmental Quality Division of the Soil Science Society of America.
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