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Michael Gallo, PhD
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Rutgers, The State University of NJ
Department: Environmental and Occupational Medicine
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Dr. Gallo is a Professor in the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology, and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Dr Gallo is an Adjunct Professor both in the UMDNJ-School of Public Health and in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy of Rutgers University. He is a founding member of EOHSI where he served as Director of Toxicology, and as Director of the NIEHS Center of Excellence. He was the founding Director of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and is the Associate Director for Population Sciences. Dr. Gallo is a renowned toxicologist with expertise in the area of dioxins, experimental models, pharmacology and toxicology, cytoplasmic and cell surface receptors, hormone biology and mechanisms of hormonal and environmental carcinogenesis. Dr. Gallo served on several NIH committees including the ALTOX-4 Study Section, Chair of the Board of Scientific Councilors of the National Toxicology Program, and member of the NIEHS Board of Councilors. He also served as Chair of the NCI Centers Review committee, as well as a member of several NAS/NRC committees including Drinking Water and Health, Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children, Risk Assessment Methodology, and the NRC?s Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine. He served the US-EPA as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, and the Dioxin Review Science Advisory Board. Dr. Gallo was Chair of the New Jersey Governor?s Pesticide Control Council, and the New Jersey Cancer Risk Commission.