Kendall Wallace
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Credentials
PhD
Research Summary
Toxicology; mechanisms by which foreign chemicals, including drugs, industrial, environmental and agrochemical compounds cause adverse human health effects. My primary focus is on the mitochondrion as a primary target or a critical factor in the pathogenesis of various chemical exposures. Current projects focus on modulating cancer causation or chemical toxicity by manipulating mitochondrial homeostasis and the role of mitochondrial epigenetics in the reprogramming of metabolic homeostasis as a compensatory survival response to mitochondrial toxicity.Dr. Wallace is past president of the Society of Toxicology, the American Board of Toxicology, the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, the Mitochondrial Research Society and the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute and has served on various scientific panels for the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency