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The Editors

Richard T. Di Giulio is Professor of Environmental Toxicology in the
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke Uni-
versity, Durham, North Carolina. At Duke, he also serves as Director
of the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program,
Director of the Superfund Basic Research Center, and Director of the
Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations. He
received a B.A. in comparative literature from the University of Texas
at Austin, his M.S. in wildlife biology from Louisiana State University,
and his Ph.D. in environmental toxicology from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University. Dr. Di Giulio has published extensively
on subjects including biochemical and molecular mechanisms of adaptation and toxicity,
mechanisms underlying chemical carcinogenesis and teratogenesis, and biomarkers for
chemical exposure and toxicity. Most of this work has employed aquatic organisms, par-
ticularly fishes. Additionally, he has organized symposia and workshops and has written
on the broader subject of interconnections between human and ecological health. Dr. Di
Giulio is a member of the Computational Toxicology Committee for the Board of Scientific
Counselors, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; he has recently worked as a member
of the National Academy of Science Committee on Assessment of the Health Implications
of Exposure to Dioxin and is Associate Editor for Toxicological Sciences.

David E. Hinton is Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality,
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, at Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina. At Duke, he serves as Chair of
the Environmental Health and Ecotoxicology Program. Dr. Hinton
received his B.S. in zoology at Mississippi College and his M.S. and
Ph.D. in anatomy at the University of Mississippi. Prior to taking his
post at Duke, Dr. Hinton served for four years as director of the
Systemwide Ecotoxicology Lead Campus Graduate Program at the
University of California, Davis, where he held increasingly responsi-
ble positions beginning in 1990. His experience at the University of
California, Davis, included Professor of Aquatic Toxicology, Professor of Veterinary Med-
icine and Aquatic Toxicology, and Chair of the Graduate Group in Pharmacology and
Toxicology. Dr. Hinton’s expertise lies in mechanistic and integrative understanding of the
manner in which environmental contaminants exert their effects, cellular pathobiology, and
toxicopathology of persistent environmental contaminants in fishes (deciphering deleteri-
ous effects and establishing causal linkages). His primary area of expertise is ecotoxicology,
and his secondary areas of study are related to applications of team efforts in watershed
management, environmental health, and biomarkers of exposure and adverse effects in
surface waters. Dr. Hinton, the author or coauthor of more than 200 papers in internationally
refereed journals, served as the editor-in-chief for Aquatic Toxicology from 1995 to 2000. He
currently is a member of the executive committee of the Research Triangle Environmental
Health Collaborative and the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute Subcom-
mittee on Emergence of Animal Alternative Needs in Environmental Risk Assessment.

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