Arsenic Project Appoints Scientific Review Panel
Five well-known arsenic researchers have accepted an invitation to serve on a scientific review panel for the joint arsenic research project undertaken by EPRI, The Hamner Institute (formerly CIIT Centers for Health Research), and USEPA.  First results from the 3-year project (2007–2009) are described in the item above. Panel members include:

• Aaron Barchowsky, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
• Barbara Beck, ScD, DABT, Gradient Corporation, Cambridge, MA
• Samuel Cohen, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
• Toby Rossman, PhD, Professor of Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine, New York University, Tuxedo, NY
• Miroslav Styblo, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Panelists will meet periodically with investigators as the project progresses.  Drs. Barchowsky, Rossman, and Styblo served with EPRI consultant Dr. Janice Yager on the USEPA Science Advisory Board Arsenic Review Panel responsible for the June 2007 report Advisory on EPA’s Assessments of Carcinogenic Effects of Organic and Inorganic Arsenic:  A Report of the US EPA Science Advisory Board.  For more information, contact Leonard Levin, (650) 855-7929, llevin@epri.com.