Molecular Biology Building
Outcomes of Toxicology Graduates, Iowa State University
Since the founding of the Interdepartmental Toxicology graduate program in 1985, 91
toxicology majors have earned 53 Ph.D.s and 46 M.S. degrees as of the Spring of
2007 (some students were awarded M.S. degrees and then continued in the toxicology
graduate program to complete a Ph.D.).
Here is a sampling of recent employment of recent graduates (Spring 2005-Spring 2007): Postdoc, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland and
then a post doc with Biomedical Sciences at Iowa State University; Captain US Army, Chief, Core Laboratory,
El Paso, Texas; Postdoc, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard University, Boston, MA; Postdoc, Radiation Research Laboratory, University of Iowa; medical degree student (MD),
Roy J. & Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa; Lab Manager, Identity Genetics in Brookings, South Dakota; Major, US
Army, Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD; Postdoc, Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri.
Here is a sampling of recent employment of our Ph.D. students: Department of Toxicology at North Carolina
State University; Proctor and Gamble Company in Ohio; Aquatic Toxicology at the University of Vermont; US EPA-ERL Duluth, Minnesota;
US Fish & Wildlife Service in Pleasantville, NJ working with contaminants;
Cleveland Clinic Research Institute in the area of
Cell Biology; Extension Leader at North Carlina State in the ara of Toxicology;
Stearns-Lehman, Director of Food Safety in Ohio;
University of Vermont in the area of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Research Scientisit, Marine Biogechemistry and Toxicology in the
Netherlands; Professor at Iowa State in the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab; Associate Professor of Biology and Director
of Honors at the University
of North Dakota; DowElanco in Indianapolis, Indiana; Assistant Scientist at Iowa State University in the Food
Science and Human Nutrition Department; Lucky-Gold Star Chemical LTD in Taejon, South Korea; Baylor Corporation in Stillwell, Kansas as
a research chemist; USDA-ARS in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Research Chemist at Amercian Cyanamid; Eye Institute in
Seoul, South Korea; Associate Professor, Medical School in Taiwan; CAL-EPA in Sacramento, California, Medical
Toxicology Branch; Research Biologist, Ecology Section, US Fish and Wildlife, LaCrosse, Wisconsin; Dow Corning
Corporation, Health & Environmental Science, in Auburn, Michigan; Post doc in Biomedical Sciences at Iowa State
University; USDA-ARS Soil and Water Management, University of Minnesota; Environment
Chemist, BASF Corporation; USDA Forest Service, Research Entomologist, Starkville, Mississippi; Director, Environmental
Fate and Effects Division, office of Pesticide Programs, US EPA, Arlington, Virginia; Senior Scientist, Biotage, Inc., Charlottesville,
Virginia; Product Development Manager, Whitmore Micro-Gen Research Labs, St. Louis Missouri; Environmental
Toxicologist, Minnesota Valley Testing Laboratories; Professor, University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital
Heart and Lung Institute, Louisville, Kentucky;
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Penn State, Pennsylvania; Post doc
UNC Chappel Hill, Carrboro, North Carolina; Biomedical Sciences Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore,
California; Research Scientist, Kemin Industries, Des Moines, Iowa; State of Florida Environmental Administration/Toxicogist, Tallahassee, Florida;
Celgene Corporation in San Diego, California; Sharon Woods Technical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; Novartis Animal Health USA, Inc., Greensboro,
North Carolina; National Animal Disease Labs, Ames, Iowa; Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, post doc, North Carolina State University;
Assistant Professor, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio; Post Doc, Laboratory of Molecular Neuropathogenesis, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior,
University of California-Irvine.
Here is a sampling of recent employment of our M.S. students (some of our M.S. students went on to other
institutions and completed Ph.D.s): Environmental Compliance Specialist at
Kimberly-Clark in Roswell, Georgia; Research Technician at the National Soil Tilth Lab in Ames, Iowa;
Spoonriver Animal Clinic in Canton, Illinois;
Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana; National Veterinary Labs, Ames, Iowa; National Pesticide Telecommunications Network at Oregon State;
Department of Pathology at Harvard University; Toxicology and Chemistry Analysis at Hazleton Labs in Madison, Wisconsin;
Veterinary Practice in Phoenix, Arizona; Research Scientist with the Minnesota Department of Health; Department
of Animal Physiology and Pathology with the University of Agricultural in the Czech Republic; Analytical Chemist
at a pharmaceutical company in Philadelphia, PA; ABC Labs in Columbia, Missouri; Diagnostician in the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
at the University of Illinois; Toxicologist for 3M Corporation in St. Paul, Minnesota; Associate Professor, University
of Illinois at Chicago; Faculty, Biology Department, University of North Dakota; Research Associate in
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapetuics Department
at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri; Lab Manager, Calloway DNA, Lawrence, MA.
