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John Pierce Wise, Sr.
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John Wise - Toxicology Program Director
John Pierce Wise, Sr., Ph.D is the Director of the Maine Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health and Associate Professor of Toxicology and Molecular Epidemiology at the Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, Department of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Southern Maine. John has accepted the role as Director of Toxicology for Ocean Alliance.
John brings to Ocean Alliance a substantial amount of toxicological expertise and experience along with many years of managing tissue sample collections and databases, which will be a vital resource to us as we move forward not just with the current Voyage of the Odyssey samples but also with future Toxicological projects.
The Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology conducts state-of-the-art research aimed at understanding how environmental toxicants affect the health of humans and marine animals. This mission is accomplished through the pursuit of the following general objectives:
- Conducting innovative and multidisciplinary toxicological and molecular epidemiological research to further our understanding of disease in humans and marine organisms, particularly as they relate to cancer, asthma and reproductive/developmental effects.
- Establish new cell culture models from lung, skin, as well as bladder, testis and ovary tissues, in the case of whales, from stranded animals, to investigate how metals and particulates cause cancer, asthma and reproductive/developmental effects in humans and marine organisms.
- Study and compare contaminant-induced DNA damage and repair in models of humans and marine organisms.
- Determine how the environmental contaminant exposure may affect the recovery of critically endangered species including marine mammals, turtles and birds.
- Create a national resource and repository of marine cell lines and tissues.
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