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Appendix A
Biographic Information
on the Committee to Develop A
Research Strategy for Environmental,
Health, and Safety Aspects
of Engineered Nanomaterials
Jonathan M. Samet (Chair) is a pulmonary physician and epidemiologist. He is
a professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medi-
cine of the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
(USC) and director of the USC Institute for Global Health. Dr. Samet’s research
has focused on the health risks posed by inhaled pollutants. He has served on
numerous committees concerned with public health: the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Science Advisory Board; committees of the National Re-
search Council, including chairing the Committee on Biological Effects of Ion-
izing Radiation VI, the Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particu-
late Matter, and the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology; and
committees of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He is a member of IOM and of
the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. Dr. Samet received his MD
from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Tina Bahadori is the National Program Director for Chemical Safety and Sus-
tainability at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Before joining
EPA in May 2012, she was the managing director of the Long-Range Research
Initiative program of the American Chemistry Council. Dr. Bahadori is the past
president of the International Society of Exposure Science and is an associate
editor of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. She
has served as a member of several committees of the National Academies, as a
peer reviewer for EPA grants and programs, as a member of the Exposure to
Chemical Agents Working Group for the National Children’s Study, and as a
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Study, and as a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Environmental Health-Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Expo-
sure Leadership Council. Before joining the ACC, she was the manager of Air
Quality Health Integrated Programs of the Electric Power Research Institute. Dr.
Bahadori holds a doctorate in environmental science and engineering from the
Harvard School of Public Health.
Jurron Bradley joined BASF as a clean energy market manager in June 2011.
In this role, he is responsible for creating BASF’s first market facing-unit for the
clean energy industry. Before joining BASF, Jurron led the consulting team at
Lux Research, which provides clients with strategic advice on technology, in-
cluding nanotechnology, and market trends and themes. Before joining Lux Re-
search, Dr. Bradley worked at Praxair, Inc., where he designed air separation
and argon recycling plants and managed a thermodynamics laboratory. He also
led research efforts to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired boilers and
worked on the development of technology to reduce emissions of nitrogen ox-
ides from coal-fired boilers. Dr. Bradley later joined Praxair’s technology plan-
ning and strategy group in which he played a key role in developing strategic
approaches for the entire research and development organization. Dr. Bradley
received a PhD in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technol-
ogy.
Seth Coe-Sullivan is a cofounder and chief technology officer of QD Vision.
His work spans quantum dot materials; new fabrication techniques, including
thin-film deposition equipment design; and device architectures for efficient
QD-LED light emission. Dr. Coe-Sullivan has more than 20 papers and patents
pending in the fields of organic light-emitting devices, quantum dot LEDs, and
nanotechnology fabrication. He was awarded Technology Review magazine’s
TR35 Award in 2006 as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35 years.
In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the top young entrepreneurs under the
age of 30 years, and in 2009, he was a finalist for the Mass Technology Leader-
ship Council’s CTO of the year. Dr. Coe-Sullivan serves on Brown University’s
Engineering Advisory Council. He received his PhD in electrical engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; his thesis work on incorporat-
ing quantum dots into hybrid organic-inorganic LED structures led to the forma-
tion of QD Vision.
Vicki L. Colvin is vice provost for research, professor of chemistry, and direc-
tor of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) at
Rice University. Among CBEN’s primary interests is the application of
nanotechnology to the environment. She has received numerous accolades for
her teaching abilities, including Phi Beta Kappa’s Teaching Prize for 1998-1999
and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award in 2002. In 2002, she was also
named one of Discover magazine’s Top 20 Scientists to Watch and received an
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Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. In 2007, she was named a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Colvin is a frequent
contributor to Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, and other peer-
reviewed journals and holds patents to seven inventions. Dr. Colvin served on
the NRC Committee for Review of the Federal Strategy to Address Environ-
mental, Health, and Safety Research Needs for Engineered Nanoscale Materials.
She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley,
where she was awarded the American Chemical Society’s Victor K. LaMer
Award for her work in colloid and surface chemistry.
Edward D. Crandall is the Hastings Professor and Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Chair
of Medicine and chair of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
of the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr.
Crandall’s clinical interests include critical-care medicine and pulmonary dis-
ease. He has written numerous peer-reviewed articles on cardiopulmonary biol-
ogy. His specific research interests are in the regulation of the differentiation
and transport properties of alveolar epithelial cells. He is actively involved in
research on the interactions of nanomaterials with alveolar epithelium. Dr.
Crandall received his PhD from Northwestern University and his MD from the
University of Pennsylvania.
Richard A. Denison is a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Dr. Denison has 27 years of experience in the environmental arena, specializing
in chemical policy and hazards, exposure, and risk assessment and management
of industrial chemicals and nanomaterials. He is a member of the National Re-
search Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and serves on
the Green Ribbon Science Panel for California’s Green Chemistry Initiative. Dr.
Denison was a member of the National Pollution Prevention and Toxics Advi-
sory Committee, which advised the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office
of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Previously, Dr. Denison was an analyst and
assistant project director in the Oceans and Environment Program of the Office
of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress. Dr. Denison received his PhD
in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University.
William H. Farland is the senior vice president for research of Colorado State
University and a professor in its Department of Environmental and Radiological
Health Sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
In 2006, Dr. Farland was appointed deputy assistant administrator for science in
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Develop-
ment (ORD). He had served as the acting deputy assistant administrator since
2001. In 2003, Dr. Farland has also been chief scientist in the Office of the
Agency Science Adviser. He served as EPA’s acting science adviser throughout
2005. Formerly, he was the director of ORD National Center for Environmental
Assessment. Dr. Farland served on a number of executive-level committees and
advisory boards in the federal government. In 2005-2006, he chaired the Execu-
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tive Committee of the National Toxicology Program. He was also a member of
the Scientific Advisory Council of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute
of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, a public
member of the American Chemistry Council’s Strategic Science Team for its
Long-Range Research Initiative, and a member of the Programme Advisory
Committee for the World Health Organization’s International Programme on
Chemical Safety. Dr. Farland recently served as chair of an external advisory
group for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences regarding the
future of the Superfund Basic Research Program. He is the chair of a standing
Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions of the
National Research Council. In 2002, Dr. Farland was recognized by the Society
for Risk Analysis with the Outstanding Risk Practitioner Award, and in 2005, he
was named a fellow of the society. In 2006, he received a Presidential Rank
Award for his service as a federal senior executive. In 2007, he was elected a
fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. Dr. Farland received his PhD
from the University of California, Los Angeles in cell biology and biochemistry.
Martin Fritts is a senior principal scientist who supported the Nanotechnology
Characterization Laboratory and SAIC-Frederick in accelerating the transition of
nanotechnology to cancer and biomedical applications. He is also a computa-
tional and experimental physicist who works on the implementation of advanced
imaging and measurement instrumentation, modeling, and simulation to eluci-
date the structure-activity relationships of nanomaterials and informatics sys-
tems to advance knowledge-sharing. Dr. Fritts serves as the cochair of the
American Society for Testing and Materials E56.02 Subcommittee on Nano-
technology Characterization. Before joining SAIC-Frederick, he developed and
prototyped nanotechnology applications for industry and government through
SAIC’s Nanotechnology Initiatives Division. He earned a PhD in nuclear phys-
ics from Yale University.
Philip K. Hopke is the Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished Professor in the De-
partment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of
Chemistry of Clarkson University. He is also director of the university’s Center
for the Environment and its Center for Air Resources Engineering and Sciences.
His research interests are related primarily to particles in the air, including parti-
cle formation, sampling and analysis, composition, and origin. His current pro-
jects are related to receptor modeling, ambient monitoring, and nucleation. Dr.
Hopke has been elected to membership in the International Statistics Institute
and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
is also a fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research, in which he
has served in various roles, including president, vice president, and member of
the board of directors. Dr. Hopke is a member of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers, the International Society of Exposure Science, and the In-
ternational Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, and others. He has served
as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Council on
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Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis and as a member of several National Re-
search Council committees, most recently the Committee on Energy Futures and
Air Pollution in Urban China and the United States, the Committee on Research
Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter, and the Committee on Air Quality
Management in the United States. Dr. Hopke received his PhD in chemistry
from Princeton University.
James E. Hutchison is the Lokey-Harrington Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Oregon. He is the founding director of the Oregon Nanoscience
and Microtechnologies Institute for Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufactur-
ing Initiative, a virtual center that unites 30 principal investigators in the North-
west around the goals of designing greener nanomaterials and nanomanufactur-
ing. Dr. Hutchison’s research focuses on molecular-level design and synthesis of
functional surface coatings and nanomaterials for a wide array of applications, in
which the design of new processes and materials draws heavily on the principles
of green chemistry. Dr. Hutchison received several awards and honors, includ-
ing the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the National Science Founda-
tion CAREER Award. He was a member of the National Research Council
Committee on Grand Challenges for Sustainability in the Chemistry Industry.
Dr. Hutchison received his PhD in organic chemistry from Stanford University.
Rebecca D. Klaper is an associate professor in the School of Freshwater Sci-
ences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The School of Freshwater Sciences
(at the Great Lakes WATER Institute) is dedicated to providing basic and ap-
plied research to inform policy decisions involving freshwater resources. Dr.
Klaper uses traditional toxicologic methods and genomic technologies to study
the potential effects of emerging contaminants, such as nanoparticles and phar-
maceuticals, on aquatic organisms. Dr. Klaper received an American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy Fellow-
ship, in which she worked in the National Center for Environmental Assessment
at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She has served as an invited
scientific expert to both the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative and the
Organisation for Economic and Co-operative Development Panel on Nanotech-
nology, for which she has testified on the potential effects of nanoparticles on
the environment and the utility of current testing strategies. She has served as a
technical expert in reviewing the EPA white paper on the environmental effects
of nanotechnologies and the EPA research strategy for nanotechnology. She also
was involved in writing the EPA white paper on the use of genomic technolo-
gies in risk assessment. Dr. Klaper received her PhD in ecology from the Insti-
tute of Ecology of the University of Georgia.
Gregory V. Lowry is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University and deputy director of the National
Science Foundation Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology.
He researches sustainable development of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies,
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including the fate, mobility, and toxicity of nanomaterials in the environment,
remediation and treatment technologies that use nanomaterials, and nanoparti-
cle-contaminant and biota interactions. He also works on sustainable energy via
carbon capture and storage. His current projects include elucidating the role of
adsorbed macromolecules on nanoparticle transport and fate in the environment,
in situ sediment management with innovative sediment caps, dense nonaqueous-
phase liquid source zone remediation through delivery of reactive nanoparticles
to the nonaqueous-phase-water interface, and carbon dioxide capture, sequestra-
tion, and monitoring. Dr. Lowry served as an external advisory board member
for the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology. He was a re-
view panelist for the Environmental Protection Agency draft nanomaterial re-
search strategy. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, and the Association of Environmental
Engineering and Science Professors. He received his PhD in civil-environmental
engineering from Stanford University.
Andrew D. Maynard is the director of the Risk Science Center of the Univer-
sity of Michigan School of Public Health. He previously served as the chief sci-
ence adviser in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the
Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. Dr. Maynard’s research interests re-
volve around aerosol characterization, the implications of nanotechnology for
human health and the environment, and managing the challenges and opportuni-
ties of emerging technologies. Dr. Maynard’s expertise covers many facets of
risk science, emerging technologies, science policy, and communication. Previ-
ously, he worked for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
and represented the agency on the Nanomaterial Science, Engineering and
Technology (NSET) subcommittee of the National Science and Technology
Council and cochaired the Nanotechnology Health and Environment Implica-
tions working group of NSET. He serves on the World Economic Forum Global
Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies and is a member of the Executive
Committee of the International Council on Nanotechnology. He previously
chaired the International Standards Organization Working Group on size-
selective sampling in the workplace. Dr. Maynard served as a member of the
NRC Committee for Review of the Federal Strategy to Address Environmental,
Health, and Safety Research Needs for Engineered Nanoscale Materials. He
earned his PhD in aerosol physics from the Cavendish Laboratory of the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, UK.
Günter Oberdörster is a professor in the Department of Environmental Medi-
cine of the University of Rochester, director of the University of Rochester Ul-
trafine Particle Center, principal investigator of a Multidisciplinary Research
Initiative in Nanotoxicology, and head of the Pulmonary Core of the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center Grant. His research includes
the effects and underlying mechanisms of lung injury induced by inhaled nonfi-
brous and fibrous particles, including extrapolation modeling and risk assess-
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ment. His studies with ultrafine particles influenced the field of inhalation toxi-
cology, raising awareness of the unique biokinetics and toxic potential of nano-
sized particles. He has served on many national and international committees
and is the recipient of several scientific awards. Dr. Oberdörster has served on
several National Research Council committees, including the Committee on
Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter and the Committee on the
Review of the Federal Strategy to Address Environmental, Health, and Safety
Research Needs for Engineered Nanoscale Materials. He is on the editorial
boards of the Journal of Aerosol Medicine, Particle and Fibre Toxicology,
Nanotoxicology, and the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental
Health and is associate editor of Inhalation Toxicology and Environmental
Health Perspectives. He earned his DVM and PhD (in pharmacology) from the
University of Giessen, Germany.
Kathleen M. Rest is the executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS), a science-based nonprofit. She manages the organization’s day-to-day
affairs, supervising programs on issues ranging from climate change and clean
energy to global security. Dr. Rest came to UCS from the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, where she was the deputy director for programs. Throughout her
tenure at NIOSH, she held several leadership positions, including serving as the
institute’s acting director during the period of September 11, 2001, and the an-
thrax events that followed. Before her federal service, Dr. Rest served on the
faculty of several medical schools—most recently as an associate professor in
the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the University of Mas-
sachusetts Medical Center and an adjunct associate professor in the University
of Massachusetts School of Public Health—where she taught occupational, envi-
ronmental, and public health. She has extensive experience as a researcher and
adviser on occupational and environmental health issues in various countries,
such as the Netherlands, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Canada, and Greece. Dr.
Rest was a founding member of the Association of Occupational and Environ-
mental Clinics, a national nonprofit organization committed to improving the
practice of occupational and environmental health through information-sharing
and collaborative research. She also served as the chairperson of the National
Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. Dr. Rest earned her
PhD in health policy from Boston University.
Mark J. Utell is a professor of medicine and environmental medicine, a director
of occupational and environmental medicine, and former director of pulmonary
and critical-care Medicine in the University of Rochester Medical Center. He
serves as associate chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine. His
research interests have centered on the effects of environmental toxicants on the
human respiratory tract. Dr. Utell has published extensively on the health effects
of inhaled gases, particles, and fibers in the workplace and other indoor and out-
door environments. He is the co-principal investigator of an Environmental Pro-
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tection Agency (EPA) Particulate Matter Center and chair of the Health Effects
Institute’s Research Committee. He has served as chair of EPA’s Environmental
Health Committee and on the Executive Committee of the EPA Science Advi-
sory Board. He is a former recipient of the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences Academic Award in Environmental and Occupational Medi-
cine. Dr. Utell is currently a member of the National Research Council’s Board
on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. He previously served on the National
Research Council Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate
Matter, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee to Review the Health Con-
sequences of Service during the Persian Gulf War, and the IOM Committee on
Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures. He received his MD from Tufts
University School of Medicine.
David B. Warheit received his PhD in physiology from Wayne State University
School of Medicine in Detroit. Later, he received a National Institutes of Health
(NIH) postdoctoral fellowship, and 2 years later, a Parker Francis Pulmonary
Fellowship, both of which he took to the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences to study mechanisms of asbestos-related lung disease with Ar-
nold Brody. In 1984, he moved to the DuPont Haskell Laboratory to develop a
pulmonary-toxicology research laboratory. His major research interests are pul-
monary toxicity mechanisms and corresponding risks related to inhaled parti-
cles, fibers, and nanomaterials. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100
publications and has been the recipient of the International Life Sciences Insti-
tute (ILSI) Kenneth Morgareidge Award (1993, Hannover, Germany) for contri-
butions in toxicology by a young investigator and the Robert A. Scala Award
and Lectureship in Toxicology (2000). He has also attained diplomate status of
the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (2000) and the American Board of
Toxicology (1988). He has served on NIH review committees (NIH Small Busi-
ness Innovation Research and NIH Bioengineering) and has participated in
working groups of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the Euro-
pean Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals, Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development, the ILSI Risk Science Institute, the
ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute, and the National Research
Council. He has served on several journal editorial boards, including Inhalation
Toxicology and Toxicological Sciences (as the current associate editor), Particle
and Fibre Toxicology, Toxicology Letters, and Nano Letters. He is the chairman
of the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals Task
Force on Health and Environmental Safety of Nanomaterials, serves on the Na-
tional Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Board of Scientific Counsel-
ors, and is interim vice-president of the Nanotoxicology Specialty Section.
Mark R. Wiesner serves as director of the Center for the Environmental Impli-
cations of Nanotechnology, headquartered at Duke University, where he holds
the James L. Meriam Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering with ap-
pointments in the Pratt School of Engineering and the Nicholas School of Envi-
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ronment. Dr. Wiesner’s research has focused on the applications of emerging
nanomaterials to membrane science and water treatment and an examination of
the fate, transport, and effects of nanomaterials in the environment. He was co-
editor and author of Environmental Nanotechnologies and serves as associate
editor of the journals Nanotoxicology and Environmental Engineering Science.
Before joining the Duke University faculty in 2006, Dr.Wiesner was a member
of the Rice University faculty for 18 years, where he held appointments in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of
Chemical Engineering and served as associate dean of engineering and director
of the Environmental and Energy Systems Institute. Before working in academe,
Dr. Wiesner was a research engineer with the French company Lyonnaise des
Eaux, in Le Pecq, France, and a principal engineer with the environmental engi-
neering consulting firm of Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., White Plains, NY. He received
the1995 Rudolf Hering Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, of
which he is a fellow, and the 2004 Frontiers in Research Award from the Asso-
ciation of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, on whose board
he serves. In 2004, Dr. Wiesner was also named a de Fermat Laureate and was
awarded an International Chair of Excellence in the Chemical Engineering
Laboratory of the French Polytechnic Institute and National Institute for Applied
Sciences in Toulouse, France. He received his PhD in environmental engineer-
ing from the Johns Hopkins University.
