 | Martin Van den Berg
Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands | | | Faculty Member: Pharmacology & Drug Discovery > Toxicology [ since 20 November 2006 ] |
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Martin van den Berg is Professor in Veterinary Environmental Sciences and Toxicology, deputy director of the Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences(formerly RITOX) of the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and head of the Toxicology Division of IRAS. The Toxicology Division of IRAS consists of 30 to 40 scientists, technicians and supporting staff. His teaching responsibilities are in the area of Environmental Sciences, Toxicology and Chemistry at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine, Biology, Medical Biology and Environmental Sciences. He is also appointed as an honorary professor in environmental toxicology at the University of Queensland (Brisbane) and an adjunct professor at the Asean Institute of Technology/Royal Chulabohorn Research Institute in Bangkok. In autumn 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Umea, Sweden for his research on dioxinlike compounds.
His areas of research include: toxicokinetics, metabolism and reproductive and interactive effects of halogenated polyaromatics, interactions of xenobiotics on steroid hormone syhthesis, metabolism and their relation with hormone dependent tumors, development of in vitro assays to detect endocrine disruptors. These studies are done with mammals, birds and fish as well as in in vitro systems. The results of his scientific work and that of his research group have been published in more than 200 scientific articles and papers. He is a European registered toxicologist.
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