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Author Biography: Daston

Last Updated: December 6, 2007
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Dr. Daston oversees human safety research at Procter & Gamble, where he has worked for the past 22 years. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters, and has edited four books. Dr. Daston has served as President of the Teratology Society (1999-2000); member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (1995-98); Councilor of the Society of Toxicology (2001-2003); member of the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors (2002 on); member of the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors (2003-06; Chair in 2006); and member of the NIH National Children’s Study Advisory Committee (2003-06). He chaired the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Technical Committee at ILSI-HESI (1996-2004) and a similar committee at the American Industrial Health Council (1990-99). Dr. Daston is Editor-in-Chief of Birth Defects Research: Developmental and Reprodutive Toxicology, and is on the Editorial Board of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. He served for six years as Associate Editor of Toxicologcal Sciences. Dr. Daston is an adjunct professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Developmental Biology Program at the University of Cincinnati and Children's Hospital Research Foundation. Dr. Daston was a Visiting Scientist at the Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, 1993-94. Dr. Daston was elected a Fellow of AAAS in 1999 and of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences in 2005.


Dr. George P. Daston
Procter & Gamble
Miami Valley Laboratories
11810 E. Miami River Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45253
E-mail: daston.gp@pg.com