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David L Eaton
- Associate Vice Provost for Research, EH ADMINISTRATION
- deaton@u.wa
- 206 685-3785 tel
- 206 685-4696 fax
- Box 354695
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Dave Eaton is currently the Associate Vice Provost for Research, External Relations. Eaton oversees many of the interactions of the Office of Research with Federal agencies, working closely with UW Office of Federal Relations in Washington, DC. He also assists the Vice Provost in areas related to the administration of Centers and Institutes and other interdisciplinary research efforts.
Eaton received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in 1978. Following a post-doctoral fellowship in Toxicology at KUMC, he joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1979. He served as Toxicology Program Director in the Department of Environmental Health from 1983-90, and then as Associate Chairman of the Department from 1990-92. He is currently Professor and Director of the Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health, an NIEHS Center of Excellence, at the University of Washington, and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Dr. Eaton maintains his own active research and teaching program focused in the area of the molecular basis for environmental causes of cancer, and how human genetic differences in biotransformation enzymes may increase or decrease individual susceptibility to chemicals found in the environment. He also oversees an active program that develops interactive curricular materials in environmental health sciences for K-12 education. Nationally, he has served on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the American Board of Toxicology (1990-94), and as President of the Society of Toxicology. He has also served on the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Academy of Sciences /National Resource Council (1996-99), as a member of the Board of Directors and Vice-President of the Toxicology Education Foundation, and as Associate Editor of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. He has published over 130 scientific articles and book chapters in the field of toxicology and risk assessment.
