Dr. Weihsueh Chiu appointed to Chair a NASEM committee, and dual appointment to the USEPA Science Advisory Board and the Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee

August 2021

Dr. Weihsueh Chiu, Decision Science Core PI, and Professor of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, will chair an adhoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that will provide the US EPA with a review of the variability and relevance of existing laboratory mammalian toxicity tests for human health risk assessment to inform the development of approaches for validation and establishing scientific confidence in using New Approach Methods (NAMs).

Dr. Chiu is also appointed to the US EPA Science Advisory Board with dual appointment to the Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee.