Scientists
Dr. Judy Carman is an adjunct associate professor at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. She has a Bachelor of Science, an Honours Degree in Organic Chemistry, a PhD in Medicine in the field of nutritional biochemistry and metabolic regulation, and a Master of Public Health specializing in epidemiology and biostatistics. She has taught chemistry, biochemistry, epidemiology, research methods and statistics in Universities. She has held senior population health positions in Australia, including as the Senior Epidemiologist investigating outbreaks of disease for her State government. In that role, she conducted a government-funded, multi-State investigation into whether Rabbit Calicivirus (Viral Haemorrhagic Disease of Rabbits) could infect people, after the virus had escaped from quarantine in Australia to spread across the landscape. She also has considerable experience in conducting animal feeding experiments. Dr. Carman currently serves as a director for the Institute for Health and Environmental Research (IHER), a non-profit organization that has a scientific interest in the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), particularly those destined for the food supply. She also serves as a member of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Living Modified Organisms (LMOs), Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Environment Programme. As part of her efforts in this area, Dr. Carman has written numerous scientific papers and submissions, advised government and non-government organisations and presented to the New Zealand Royal Commission into Genetic Modification in 2001. She is also a founding member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Sustainable Food Trust, based in the UK. She received grant money from the Government of Western Australia to conduct some of the first long-term, independent animal feeding studies into the safety of GM crops with human health end-points.
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Dr. Bennet Omalu received his MB, BS [M.D.] degree from the University of Nigeria in 1991. He received his MPH [Masters in Public Health] degree in Epidemiology from University of Pittsburgh in 2004. He also received his MBA [Masters in Business Administration] degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Dr. Omalu holds four board certifications in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Forensic Pathology and Neuropathology. Dr. Omalu is also board certified in Medical Management and is a Certified Physician Executive [CPE]. Dr. Omalu was the first to identify, describe and name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] as a disease entity in football players and wrestlers. He is currently the Chief Medical Examiner of San Joaquin County, California, and is the President and Medical Director of Bennet Omalu Pathology. He also serves as a Clinical Professor and Associate Physician Diplomate at the UC, Davis Medical Center, Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Omalu has testified twice before the United States Congress and has provided hundreds of testimonies as an expert witness in federal courts and state courts across the United States. Dr. Omalu is a member of many professional organizations, including but not limited to the College of American Pathologists, American Society of Clinical Pathology, American College of Physician Executives, American College of Epidemiologists, American Association of Neuropathologists, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, National Association of Medical Examiners, International Academy of Pathology and American Medical Association.
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Ann McKee (b. 1953) is a neuropathologist and expert in neurodegenerative disease at Boston University School of Medicine. She is particularly known for her work studyingAlzheimer's disease and the consequences of repetitive traumatic brain injury. McKee is a leading authority on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that is most commonly found in athletes participating in boxing, American football, ice hockey, and other contact sports. She has found evidence of CTE in over 70 of the athletes that she has examined, including three NHL enforcers and 18 NFL players. A football fan herself, McKee has presented her findings to National Football League officials and testified before the United States House Judiciary Committee. She has also studied diseases including Lewy Body disease, Parkinson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and corticobasal degeneration. McKee is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University (BU) and the chief neuropathologist for the National Veterans Affairs ALS Brain Bank. She is Professor of Neurology and Pathology at BU, was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School from 1991 to 1994. She completed a fellowship in neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a residency in neurology at Cleveland Metropolitan. General Hospital.
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Gilles-Éric Séralini is a French scientist who has been a professor of molecular biology at the University of Caen since 1991. He is best known for publishing research concluding that genetically modified food is unsafe for consumption; for example one such study, published in September 2012 in Food and Chemical Toxicology prompted many headlines about the dangers of Roundup Ready corn and the Roundup herbicide. The study was also subject to considerable criticism by members of the scientific community in what has become known as the Seralini affair. In 1987, Seralini obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Montpellier II. He then did four years of research at, among other places, the University of Western Ontario and Laval University Medical Center, doing research on corticosteroid-binding globulin, before being appointed a professor at the University of Caen in June 1991, a position he has held ever since. The general area of his lab's research focuses on the endocrine system, in particular the enzyme aromatase, and his lab has synthesized a number of aromatase inhibitors using equine aromatase as a model. In addition to the safety of genetically modified food, Seralini's more recent research has focused on the effects of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup on human cells and the enzyme aromatase in vitro, as well as rat testicular cells. In general, this in vitro research has concluded that Roundup (the formulation with adjuvants, not just glyphosate) is toxic to cells in a dish, as well as that it is an endocrine disruptor. The cell lines tested include HUVEC, HEK cells, and placental JEG-3 cells, as well as HepG2 cells.The Seralini lab's most recent study is one that examines the effects of Cry1ab and Cry1ac insecticidal Bt toxins, as well as their effects in conjunction with Roundup, on HEK cells. His research has been published in theJournal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology.
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