| Frank Welsch, D.V.M., Ph.D., Diplomate, American Board of Toxicology, is the Principal Toxicologist of Orbitox, International Toxicology Consultants, based in the United States. Dr. Welsch received his training at the Free University of Berlin and spent eighteen years of his professional career in academia. He was a research associate at Columbia University in New York and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, before he became a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1971—where Dr. Welsch developed an independent research program with primary funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and rose through the academic ranks to Full Professor. In 1982, Dr. Welsch joined the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT) as Head of the Teratology Laboratory where he conducted a research program in mechanisms of developmental toxicology, toxicokinetics as well as toxicodynamics and physiologically based pharmacokinetic models applicable to pregnancy. Dr. Welsch and his postdoctoral associates have published extensively on topics of placental function as well as reproductive and developmental toxicology. He has been member of a variety of advisory panels for government as well as industry including: (NIH,) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Toxicology Program (NTP), as well as the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and DFG-MAK Commission. Dr. Welsch has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals in toxicology and teratology. Since 2001 he has been an independent consultant in toxicology with Orbitox, International Toxicology Consultants working with clients in the Americas, Europe and Asia. |
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