Predictive Analytics for Toxicology: Applications in Discovery Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367775544)

Luis G. Valerio, Jr. has been a toxicologist for over 26 years. He has served in the public health arena for 20 years. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Colorado in Denver and is a board-certified toxicologist in the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. He was a National Research Council, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Fellow in Gastroenterology at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Following his academic research on the molecular regulation of cytochrome P450 1A1 and 1A2, he served as a National Science Foundation International Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain where he studied the biochemistry and metabolism of alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes. He served as a temporary advisor for the World Health Organization and on international scientific committees assessing the safety of chemicals added to food. He has worked on quality standards-setting committees for human pharmaceuticals. He has several years of industry experience in consumer product safety and chemical toxicology. He has overseen clinical studies to predict dermal hazards of consumer products. He has served as a Scientific Director of a food chemical and manufacturing trade association. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journals, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods and Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology (Taylor & Francis Group). He enjoys writing and has published 100 articles on a variety of topics in mechanisms of chemical toxicity, xenobiotic metabolism, safety science, and computational science.