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About the Contributors xi

of the Board of Publications. She is a Fellow in the Academy of
Toxicological Sciences and in the American College of Toxicology.

André E. Nel, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the
Division of NanoMedicine at UCLA. He runs the Cellular Immunology
Activation Laboratory in the Johnson Cancer Center at UCLA. Dr. Nel
obtained his M.B., Ch.B. (M.D.), and Doctorate of Medicine (Ph.D. equiv-
alent) degrees from the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South
Africa, and subsequently did Clinical Immunology and Allergy training
at UCLA. Dr. Nel is the principal investigator of the UCLA Asthma and
Immunology Disease Center, codirector of the Southern California Particle
Center, and director of the University of California Nanotoxicology
Research and Training program. He served as chair of the Allergy
Immunology Transplant Research Committee at the NIAID and is chair
of the Air Pollution Committee in the AAAAI. Dr. Nel is a member of the
ASCI, AAAAI, AAI, and the Western Association of Physicians.

Dr. Christine Ogilvie Robichaud is a doctoral candidate at Duke
University where she is engaged in research on assessing life-cycle risks
of nanomaterials, targeting use in energy technologies. Ms. Robichaud
holds an M.S. in Environmental Analysis and Decision Making from Rice
University, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M
University. Prior to graduate school she worked in energy supply chain
consulting and in the biofuels industry.

Dr. Thierry Orsiére has been a Research Scientist at the Université
de la Méditerranée (Faculty of Medicine) since 1996. He obtained a
Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the Université de Provence (Aix-
Marseille) and a doctorate of Pharmacology from the Université de la
Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille). His research has focused on the effects of
DNA damage and changes in processes governing cell division on human
cells. His work has included studies of worker exposure to mutagens,
determination of the ability of contaminants to induce chromosome
aberrations, and the genotoxic properties of mineral nanoparticles.

Dr. Jérôme Rose is a senior scientist at the CEREGE (CNRS) since
1997 and serves as adjunct faculty at Rice University and Columbia
University. He obtained an Engineering degree in geosciences and a
doctorate from the Lorraine National Polytechnic Institute (France).
He has supervised twelve Ph.D. students and two postdoctoral
researchers. Dr. Rose was the 2006 recipient of the bronze medal from the
CNRS. His research focuses on the behavior and toxicity of colloids and
contaminants from laboratory to field scale. He is employing intensively
synchrotron-based techniques to study mechanisms at a molecular level.