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Professor CALABRESE, EDWARD J. (Amherst)
Professor of Toxicology, Environmental Health Sciences

Phone: (413) 545-3164
Email: edwardc@schoolph.umass.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Development of Occupational and Environmental Health Standards

Environmental and Occupational Toxicology

Environmental and Occupational Toxicology II

Microbiology and Food Processing

Toxicology

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
State College at Bridgewater, MA. (1964 - 1968). Biology, B.A. 1968

State College at Bridgewater, MA. (1969 - 1971). Biology, M.A. 1972.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. (1971 - 1973). Physiology/Toxicology (Entomology Department), Ph.D. 1973

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. (1972 - 1974). Education, Ed.D. - 1974

Professional History:
Director - Northeast Regional Environmental Public Health Center, October 1985 - Present

Professor - Promoted from Associate Professor, June 1982 - Present.

Current Research Support:
Co - Director. International Conference on Contaminated Soil, Sediment, and Groundwater. Scheduled for London. August 2000. ($300,000)

Principal Investigator. Conference on Non - Linear Dose - Response. Multiple sponsors. September 2000. ($150,000)

Co - Principal Investigator. Soil ingestion workshop/assessment. U.S. EPA. June/July, 2000. ($50,000)

Principal Investigator. Soil ingestion in construction workers. U.S. EPA/CMA. October, 1999 ($650,000).

Principal Investigator. Development of an ionizing radiation hormesis database. NRC. September 1997 - September 1999. ($188,000).

Principal Investigator. Biological effects of low level exposures. Three year cooperative agreement. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1196 - 1998, 1999 - 2001. ($60,000 or $20,000/year).

Principal Investigator. Assessment of soil ingestion in children. Health Canada. January, 1999. ($6,500).

Principal Investigator. Biological effects of low level exposures. From multiple sponsors. 1997, 1998, 1999. ($120,000/year).

Co - Principal Investigator. Florida Power and Light. Biological effects of arsenic contaminated soil. January, 1998. ($100,000), March, 1999. ($50,000).

Selected Publications:
Calabrese, E.J. and Baldwin, L.A. (2000). Radiation hormesis: Its historical foundations as a biological hypothesis. Human Exp. Toxicol., 19:41 - 75.

Calabrese, E.J. and Baldwin, L.A. (1999). Re - evaluation of the fundamental dose - response relationship. BioScience, 49(a):725 - 732.

Calabrese, E.J. and Blain, R.B. (1999). The single exposure carcinogen database: assessing the circumstances during which a single exposure to a carcinogen can cause cancer. Toxicol. Sci., 50:169 - 185.

Anderton, D.L., Anderson, A.B., Rossi, P.H., Oakes, J.M., Fraser, M.R., Weber, E.W., and Calabrese, E.J. (1998). Minority communities are not unfairly exposed to hazardous waste industries. Evaluation Review, 18(2):123 - 140.

Calabrese, E.J. and Baldwin, L.A. (1998). A general classification of U - shaped dose - response relationships. Human and Exper. Toxicol., 17:353 - 364.