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Author Biography: Carney

Last Updated: June 24, 2009
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Ed Carney serves as the Science & Technology Leader for Developmental & Reproductive Toxicology (DART) and Neurotoxicology at The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, MI, where he has worked since 1992.  He oversees regulatory toxicology testing programs in these disciplines, as well as investigational research programs focusing on in vitro alternatives to whole animal toxicology testing, developmental pharmacokinetics, and chemical mixtures.  Ed earned a B.S. in Animal Science from Cornell University (1981), and graduate degrees in reproductive physiology from University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S. 1986) and Cornell University (Ph.D. 1990).  Immediately prior to joining Dow, Ed was a post-doctoral research fellow with Janet Rossant and Steve Lye at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

To date, Ed has contributed 69 peer-reviewed publications to the scientific literature.  He currently serves on the U.S. National Toxicology Program's Board of Scientific Councilors and the editorial boards of Reproductive Toxicology, Toxicological Sciences, and www.AltTox.org, and is a member of the OECD Extended One-Generation Study Expert Group, the ILSI-DART subcommittee, and the Boards of the Toxicology Forum and the Humane Society's Human Toxicology Project.  He also is Vice President-Elect of the Society of Toxicology's Reproductive & Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section, holds an adjunct faculty position with the University of Michigan - School of Public Health, and lectures in the University of Surrey Master's Programme in Toxicology.  Ed is a past Councilor of the Teratology Society and continues to serve on several Teratology Society committees, and is a Past President of the Midwest Teratology Association.


Edward W. Carney, Ph.D.
1803 Building
The Dow Chemical Company
Midland, MI  48674
E-mail: ecarney@dow.com