Theodore Slotkin, PhD, professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology in the Duke University School of Medicine, was awarded the 2015 Education Award from the Society of Toxicology. This prestigious award honors an individual who teaches and trains toxicologists and has made significant contributions to education in the field of toxicology. Slotkin has been teaching and mentoring future toxicologists at Duke for more than 40 years. Slotkin is also a professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and in Neurobiology.
“The Society believes strongly in supporting the development and growth of toxicology’s next generation of researchers, and serving on the frontline in this effort are the toxicologists who have dedicated themselves to not only the profession but mentoring budding scientists in the possibilities of the field. Drs. Reynolds and Slotkin are excellent scientists, but potentially more importantly, they are inspirations to their students,” says Norbert E. Kaminski, President of the Society of Toxicology. (Mindy F. Reynolds, PhD, of Washington College, received the Undergraduate Educator Award.)
The Society of Toxicology is the world’s largest and preeminent association representing the field of toxicology.