Journal of Analytical Toxicology & Environmental Study

Dr. Sayed M. Hassan is presently working as Senior Research Scientist and Director at CAIS Lab. for Environmental Analysis in The University of Georgia at the United States. He has joined CAIS in 2015, and has over 40 years of experience in analytical research in both Egypt and the United States. He has spent 20 years teaching both Analytical Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis to graduate and undergraduate students at University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt. During that time, he also worked as a part-time consultant at the National Organization for Drug Control and Research and Kahira Pharmaceutical Company in Cairo, Egypt, where his research focused on pharmaceutical analysis and drug control, with special interest in stability indicating methods and functional group analysis. He is also worked as Professor and Head in the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy in the University of Mansoura, Egypt. Recently, he has received a grant from US National Park Service on a title entitled “Multi-element Chemical Analysis on Slave Village Soils at Cumberland Island National Seashore, 2017 – 2018. He is also acting as advisory committees for various International Committees. He has almost 100 articles in various International journals. He has presented 30 Abstracts at various International conferences.

Research: Organic Chemistry, Environmental Science, Method Development

Dr. Xiaoqing Guo received her Master’s degree in Pathology and a Ph.D. degree in Medical Sciences from Hebei Medical University, China in 1999 and 2005, respectively. She started her scientific career in 1999 in clinical cancer research, including diagnosis and treatment of early cancers, as a physician in the 4th Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, also known as the Hebei Cancer Institute. Her Ph.D. training extended her career into molecular biomarker screening for esophageal cancer in a high-risk area of China. In June of 2008, Dr. Guo was recruited as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Genetic and Molecular Toxicology (DGMT) at the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR). Following the postdoctoral training, Dr. Guo was hired as a Research Associate in Toxicologic Pathology Associates, Inc. (TPA) and in January of 2012, Dr. Guo joined the NCTR/DGMT as an FDA Staff Fellow. Dr. Guo has authored or coauthored more than 50 papers. Currently, she serves on the editorial and scientific review boards of several toxicological journals. She holds memberships with the Society of Toxicology, Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society.

Research: Dr. Xiaoqing Guo’s current research interest is to develop pathway-based, medium- or high-throughput, and high-content (HTHC) approaches for genotoxicity testing. She also is interested in mechanistic study for chemical-induced genotoxicity. 

Dr. Kinslow is a toxicologist with over 26 years of biomedical, regulatory, and environmental experience.  Carla has expertise in inhalation toxicology; toxicogenomics; toxicological risk assessment for metals (chromium VI, nickel and cobalt); opiate, alcohol, and marijuana toxicology; ambient air monitor placement; human health impacts analysis from emission events; monitoring data; modeling data related to ambient and indoor air quality; water contamination; and stakeholder communication.  She specializes in regulatory compliance for risk-based remediation assessment, soil and groundwater toxicology under the USEPA, as well as, state and federal air permits.  She has reviewed and helped develop regulatory inhalation values for multiple chemicals, including chromium VI, acrylonitrile, arsenic, and nickel. She has served as manager for various regulatory projects where she helped design and implement air monitoring networks for particulate metals and VOCs, groundwater monitoring projects, and remediation scopes, with subsequent assessment of human health impacts based on collected data.  She has extensive experience in developing regulatory guidance, assessment values and reviewing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), federal and state regulatory rules regarding air, soil, and water toxicology for metals, VOCs and semi-volatile VOCs.  Dr. Kinslow also has extensive experience in the evaluation of health risks based on genetic predisposition to disease from environmental, occupational, and pharmaceutical exposures.

Dr. Alessia Giannetto, is a researcher at the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Italy. She graduated in 2004 with full marks in Biology at University of Messina. She has started her career with a Ph.D. (2005-08) in Biology and Cellular Biotechnologies studying the gene expression of health and stress biomarkers in aquatic organisms. On 2009-10 she is the principal investigator of a research project on epigenetic regulation of sexual maturation and growth in Atlantic cod, funded by Council of Norway and she performs her research activity at the Nord University (Norway), where she engages active collaborations with research groups from several European Universities. From 2011 to November 2016 she continues her research activity as fellow at University of Messina, receiving academic grants, participating to several European research project and producing 25 Peer-Reviewed scientific publications, 18 International conferences, and 32 national conferences.

Dr. Yasemin Bakircioglu Kurtulus is a Professor, Trakya University, Department of Chemistry, Edirne, Turkey. Prior to that, she worked as an Associate professor in 2006-2012 and Assistant professor in 2002-2006. She authored a number of publications on her name.

Dr. Abdel-Tawab H. Mossa is a Professor of Pesticide Chemistry Department at National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt. He did his Ph.D. in Genotoxicity of Pesticides from Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Agriculture (Damanhour), Alexandria University, Egypt. He has a membership in Society of Toxicology, Egyptian Society of Toxicology, Egyptian Society of Chemistry and Arabic Society of Medicine Research.He serves as an Editorial board member and reviewer for international journals.

Dr. Željko Jakšić awarded his Ph.D. degree in biotechnology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is a senior research scientist at the Ruder Bošković Institute Center for Marine Research, Rovinj, Croatia. His principal research curiosity is molecular toxicology of marine species. He is actively working at the interface between molecular biology, toxicology, and the environment. His research has focused on the development of novel immunoassays and analytical biochemical techniques for DNA integrity determination, programmed cell death mechanisms and protein modulation by xenobiotics which are orientated towards estimating the toxic and genotoxic risk to marine invertebrates in both controlled laboratory conditions and their natural habitat. Integrated system biology of an aquatic ecosystem, OMICS technologies coupled with bioinformatics are areas of present scientific interest. As a guest scientist, he spent several months at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and University Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz and University of Stuttgart, Germany. At the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, he lectures on Biochemistry and the Biological effects of xenobiotics. He is author and co-author of numerous scientific articles and specialist book chapters.

Research: Dr. Zeljko Jaksic's research interests include molecular toxicology, ecotoxicology, marine environmental toxicology, marine biotechnology, nanotoxicology, OMICs technologies, and system biology. 

Dr. Massoud Kaykhaii is a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Sistan and Baluchistan (Zahedan, Iran) since 1989. His research work is focused on modern sample preparation techniques including µ-solid phase extraction, solid phase microextraction, liquid phase microextraction and stir bar sorptive extraction. He has published ca. 100 research articles; presented ca. 130 seminars/conferences; authored two textbooks, and (co)supervised more than 100 MSc and Ph.D. thesis. He is secretary of three national mirror committees of ISO/TC and member of the editorial advisory board of 84 journals. He finished 25 industrial projects and has been the counselor in 10 companies in Iran. In 2017 he awarded the best researcher of the University of Sistan and Baluchestan.