Challenges and new opportunities to the environmental health sciences
Challenges and new opportunities to the environmental health sciences
| Title: | Challenges and new opportunities to the environmental health sciences from epigenetics and endocrine disruption |
| Category: | Third-party event |
| Detail: | Gastreferat |
| Date: | 11. Aug. 2008, 14:00 - 15:00 |
| Venue: | Eawag Dübendorf |
| FC-C24 | |
| Speaker: | John Peterson Myers, Environmental Health Sciences |
| Leader: | Marc Suter, Utox |
John Peterson Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences. Pete Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the UC Berkeley and a BA from Reed College. For a dozen years beginning in 1990, Myers served as Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote Our Stolen Future, a book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. He has published the website OurStolenFuture.org since that book was published, synthesizing hundreds of scientific articles about endocrine disruption to make them accessible to the media and the lay public.