The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis

He is a fellow (emeritus) of the Collegium Ramazzini. Melnick has organized several national and international symposiums and workshops on health risks associated with exposure to toxic and carcinogenic agents, and he has served on numerous scientific review boards and advisory panels, including those of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the U.S. He spent one year as an agency representative at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to work on interagency assessments of health risks of environmental agents and on risk assessment research needs in the Federal government. He was manager of the NIEHS Experimental Toxicology Unit, Carcinogenesis and Toxicology Evaluation Branch, and group leader of the NIEHS Toxicokinetics and Biochemical Modeling Group, in the Laboratory of Computational Biology and Risk Analysis.

In addition, his research has focused on the use of mechanistic data in assessing human health risks of environmental chemicals. He led the design of the NTP carcinogenicity studies of cell phone radiofrequency radiation in rodents. Melnick was involved in the design, monitoring and interpretation of toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of numerous environmental and occupational agents including 1,3-butadiene, chloroprene, isoprene, water disinfection byproducts, etc. Melnick served as a toxicologist for 28+ years at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP), before retiring in 2009. She has also authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications in books and journals.ĭr. She is currently Visiting Professor at the Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School, Samsun, Turkey. She was part of the team of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with the Honorable Al Gore as she was lead author on research assessing climate mitigation policies. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Toxicology Program and various advisory committees to the U.S. She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the U.S. Davis was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services and appointed to the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board by President Clinton.

National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. Davis was Founding Director, Center for Environmental Oncology and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. Founder and President of Environmental Health Trustĭr.

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis