Endocrine Disruptors

Lisa Baumann is a Research Group Leader at the University of Heidelberg. She is specialized in aquatic toxicology with focus on endocrine effects, hepatotoxicity and immunotoxicity in fish. Special focuses of her work are developmental studies with zebrafish (embryos), as well as histopathological analyses. She is part of the EFSA working group for endocrine disruptors.

Natalie Burden is currently a Programme Manager in ecotoxicology at the UK’s NC3Rs. Prior to this she worked in drug discovery at Pfizer and completed a PhD and post-doc in medical research.

Judy Choi is a Certified Toxicologist (DABT, ERT), currently working as a Senior Scientific Officer in the \"Toxicology of Active Substances and their Metabolites\" Unit, Department of Pesticides Safety, at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin, Germany. One of her activities at BfR is the toxicological evaluation of active substances for ED potential of human health relevance, and she has been an invited expert in multiple meetings on ED with EFSA or ECHA.

Daniela Fruth is a Regulatory Toxicologist at knoell Germany GmbH. She studied food chemistry at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and is holding a PhD in Pharmacy from the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. After her PhD period spent in the chemical industry focussing on genotoxicity and in vitro metabolism, she joined knoell in 2016 and has since then worked in the biocide sector with a focus on human safety, exposure and risk assessment as well as regulatory affairs. She is part of the knoell ED expert team and is involved in the assessment of active substances (biocides and crop protection) and co-formulants with respect to endocrine disrupting properties

Charles Hazelrigg is a Senior Ecotoxicologist and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at Enviresearch Ltd. He uses ecological modelling approaches to better understand the impacts of chemical stressors on populations, informing decision-making by linking laboratory-generated ecotoxicity data to protection goals.

Heli Hollnagel is a EUROTOX registered Toxicologist, working as Regulatory Toxicologist and EMEA Science Leader at Dow Europe. She is also the Chair of Cefic's Polymers Network of Experts and Cefic's LRI Stragetic Implementation Group, as well as a member of the ECETOC Scientific Committee.

Laurent Lagadic works for the Environmental Safety Division of Bayer CropScience in Germany, where he is involved in aquatic risk assessment for pesticides, and currently leads the development and application of testing strategies for evaluating potential endocrine disrupting properties of these substances in aquatic organisms. He holds a PhD in fundamental and environmental toxicology and has previously worked as an Aquatic Ecotoxicologist at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) for over 20 years.

Anna Lanzoni is a Senior Scientific Officer at the European Food Safety Authority EFSA. She has previously served as Head of Pathology at Aptuit, a pharmaceutical services provider.

Jo Little has a background in Biochemistry and joined HSE in 2016 as a Regulatory Toxicologist. After leaving for a short time to work as a Consultant Toxicologist, Jo returned to HSE in July 2021 as a Senior Regulatory Toxicologist. Although working on both pesticide and biocide active Substances and product applications, Jo has overall responsibility at HSE for the toxicology aspects of biocidal active substances and is the technical lead for Endocrine Disruption.

Emily McVey is an experienced Regulatory Toxicologist and works as a Risk Assessor in ecotoxicology at the Ctgb. Her specialties include environmental toxicology, wild vertebrates (birds, mammals, amphibians, fish), molecular mechanisms of toxicity, neurodevelopmental toxicity and endocrine disruption testing and assessment.

Kirsi Myöhänen is a Scientific Officer Unit (C1 Classification) of the European Chemicals Agency ECHA. A toxicologist (PhD Pharm, MSC Pharm, and MSC Tox, European Registered Toxicologist) by trainings, she has been working in ECHA Classification unit from 2012, in ECHA Biocides unit in 2013-2019 with biocidal active substance approval and since 2019 again in classification, where she is currently also involved in developing classification criteria for EDs. Kirsi is also a co-chair of the ECHA Endocrine Disruptor Expert Group (ED EG). She has previously worked as Senior Adviser at the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency involved also in developing ED criteria for biocides and PPPs.

Andreas Nastch has over 20 years of research of experience in the fragrance industry. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow with Givaudan in Switzerland, where he is responsible for development and validation of new methods in in vitro toxicology and development of integrated testing strategies (ITS) for skin sensitization testing. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and has spent his post doc fellowship at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia in Madrid.

Grace Panter joined wca UK in 2018 as an environmental toxicologist and leads on the monitoring of in vitro and higher tier chronic fish and amphibian studies to address regulatory issues, including the assessment of potential endocrine disrupting chemicals. She previously worked at Syngenta conducting environmental risk assessments for PPP for submission in Europe, and worked at the Brixham Environmental Laboratory as a project manager and study director on aquatic projects.

Katie Paul Friedman joined the National Center for Computational Toxicology in the Office of Research and Development at the US EPA in August 2016, where she is currently focused on integration of multiple information streams to address the needs of preliminary risk assessment, with additional interests in uncertainty in alternative and traditional toxicity information, endocrine bioactivity prediction and in vitro kinetics. Previously, she worked as a Regulatory Toxicologist at Bayer CropScience with specialties in neurodevelopmental and endocrine toxicity, high-throughput science, and predictive toxicology. She has been actively involved in multi-stakeholder projects to develop adverse outcome pathways, alternative testing approaches, and the regulatory acceptance of these tools.

Helen Tinwell has a PhD in genotoxicity and joined Bayer Crop Science in 2005 after having spent 17 years at Syngenta. Until recently, she has worked in research toxicology focusing on method development and mode of action investigations to address endocrine disruption. In 2017 she became team leader of the Regulatory Toxicology group. She leads the development and application of testing strategies for evaluating potential endocrine-disrupting properties of plant protection molecules in mammals and is a member of the ECPA ED Expert Group.

Lennart Weltje holds a PhD in ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry and currently works as a Senior Ecotoxicologist at BASF conducting risk assessments for PPPs and biocides. He is also an honorary Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Georg-August University in Goettingen. His former stations include the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).

Jordane Wodli currently serves as a policy advisor national expert on chemicals in the European Commission’s DG Environment.