Birnbaum appointed NIEHS director
| December 04, 2008 | |
Dr. Linda Birnbaum
Linda S. Birnbaum, PhD, adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, has been appointed as director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), effective January 2009. As director, she will oversee a $730 million budget that funds multidisciplinary biomedical research programs and prevention and intervention efforts that encompass training, education, technology transfer and community outreach. NIEHS, located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., supports more than 1,240 research grants. A native of New Jersey and board-certified toxicologist, Birnbaum received her master’s and doctoral degrees in microbiology from the University of Illinois, Urbana. She has served as a federal scientist for nearly 29 years, most recently as senior advisor at the Environmental Protection Agency, where she was director of the Experimental Toxicology Division for 16 years. NIEHS, part of the National Institutes of Health, supports research to understand the effects of the environment on human health. # # # UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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