Spring 2025

What’s New at Gradient

Awards and Announcements

 

Lindsey Borton and co-author Kelly Coleman (Medtronic) received the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Medical Device and Combination Product Specialty Section (MDCPSS) Best Poster Award for their poster “Material-Mediated Pyrogens in Medical Devices: Myth or Reality?” at the SOT 64th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo.

Tom Lewandowski has been selected to serve on the Alternatives Assessment Codes of Practice Technical Committee.

Satori Marchitti and Lisa Bailey received the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Risk Assessment Specialty Section (RASS) Best Overall Abstract Award for their abstract “Evaluation of US EPA’s Proposed Rule for the Occupational Use of Carbon Tetrachloride and Proposal for a Revised Occupational Exposure Value” at the SOT 64th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo.

Michael Peterson has been accepted as a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS).

Robyn Prueitt has been accepted as a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS).

Publications

 

Bus, JS; Su, S; Li, W; Goodman, JE. 2024. “Styrene lung cancer risk assessment: An alternative evaluation of human lung cancer risk assuming mouse lung tumors are potentially human relevant and operating by a threshold-based non-genotoxic mode of action.” J. Toxicol. Environ. Health B Crit. Rev. 27(7):264-286. doi: 10.1080/10937404.2024.2380449.

Li, W; Chien, J; Cohen, JM. 2025. “The relationship between air lead and blood lead in a modern US lead-acid battery facility: A longitudinal study.” J. Occup. Health 67(1):uiae073. doi: 10.1093/joccuh/uiae073.

Rhomberg, LR; Goodman, JE; Ryman, J. 2025, Forthcoming. “Is the science underlying recent alternatives for harmonizing quantitative risk approaches robust enough to replace toxicity thresholds in non-cancer risk assessment?” J. Toxicol. Reg. Pol. 

Presentations

 

Society of Toxicology (SOT) 64th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo. March 16-20, 2025. Orlando, FL.

  • “Nano and Microplastics: State of the Science on Sources, Analysis Methods, and Potential Health Effects.” Exhibitor-Hosted Session. M. Peterson, K. Reid, T. Lewandowski.

34th Annual Sustainability and Environmental Health and Safety Symposium. April 22-23, 2025. Cincinnati, OH.

  • “The Rest of the Story…on PFAS.” R. Prueitt, T. Ling (Plaskolite, LLC), J. Eagle (Thompson Hine LLP).

CLA and RISE 2025 Regulatory Conference. April 23-25, 2025. Arlington, VA.

  • “Epidemiological Studies: A Path Forward.” D. Boon.

By the Way… 

 

“In 1907, Belgian chemist, inventor, and clever marketeer Leo Baekeland pioneered the first fully synthetic plastic, beating his rival to the patent office by one day.”