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Training Programs

EHSC faculty, staff, and core units assist in the recruitment and training of promising individuals to levels in toxicology and environmental health that can effectively meet the growing global challenge.

The Training Programs, with their hands-on interdisciplinary research opportunities and complementary academics, are integral to providing vital graduate and postdoctoral training at OSU. Former graduates hold professional positions in government, academia, and industry.


NIEHS Training Grant in Toxicology

Oregon State University (OSU) offers interdisciplinary training in toxicology through its predoctoral degree program in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology and through postdoctoral fellowships. The NIEHS Training Grant offers financial support and provides unique research opportunities to selected predoctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows. Support is available on a competitive basis to applicants with a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, or the biological sciences.
A limited number of graduate fellowships are also available through the Linus Pauling Institute.


Training Grant Faculty
Affiliated faculty members provide challenging basic sciences academics while mentoring students as they develop individual projects; this intensive course of studies leads to the M.S. or Ph.D. degree in toxicology. Training is provided in diverse areas including analytical, aquatic, biochemical, comparative, environmental and molecular toxicology with an emphasis on a mechanistic approach. Research projects focus on some aspect of toxicology or environmental health.

Current Faculty include:

  • Dr. Arup Indira - Nuclear receptors and skin cancer, tumor microenvironment and cancer stem cells
  • Dr. William Baird - Carcinogenesis; DNA damage and repair
  • Dr. Joseph Beckman- Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS), Peroxynitrite, Zinc, Superoxide Dismutase
  • Dr. Andrew Buermeyer - DNA replication, repair and recombination/ MMR proteins - prevention of turmorigenesis
  • Dr. Larry Curtis- Intracellular trafficking of persistent organic pollutants in liver
  • Dr. Roderick Dashwood - Diet and cancer; tumor oncogenes
  • Dr. Jennifer Field - Organic chemicals / environment
  • Dr. Balz Frei - Antioxidants; cardiovascular
  • Dr. Bruce Gold - Neurotoxicology
  • Dr. Tory Hagen - Mitochondrial decay in aging / cellular function
  • Dr. John Hays - Mismatch repair; mutagenesis; UV-B
  • Dr. Emily Ho- Nutrition & Food Management
  • Dr. Jeff Jenkins - Environmental/Analytic chemistry; pesticides
  • Dr. Nancy Kerkvliet - Immunotoxicology; dioxins; endocrine disruptors
  • Dr. Siva Kolluri - Molecular targets that are selective/specific for cancer
  • Dr. Dennis Koop - Molecular regulation; drug metabolism
  • Dr. Mark Leid - Signal transduction
  • Dr. Pamela Lein- Neurotoxicology; PCBs
  • Dr. Stephen Lloyd - DNA repair processes and high fidelity DNA replication
  • Dr. Rosita Proteau - Pharmacokinetics; drug metabolism
  • Dr. Peter Spencer - Experimental and Clinical Neurotoxicology
  • Dr. Robert Tanguay- Aquatic Toxicology
  • Dr. Mitchell Turker - Abnormal gene inactivation / cancer & aging
  • Dr. David Williams - Cancer chemoprevention; drug metabolism

For more information contact: Dr. Robert Tanguay, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.