Waters Running Deep:Toxicogenomics Article Points to Dr. Michael Waters as Driver of Positive Change15 Jun 2011
Dr. Michael Waters, Chief Scientific Officer at ILS, received praise as a catalyst for necessary industry changes in a recent NIEHS article titled “Taking the pulse of toxicogenomics at GEMS.” The event, sponsored by the Genetics and Environmental Mutagenesis Society (GEMS) and hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), showcased a range of lectures from well-versed Genetic Toxicologists – one of which was Dr. Michael Waters.
His talk, “Utilizing Available Toxicogenomic Datasets to Understand Chemical Mode of Action,” outlined a plan for extracting and integrating data from public databases, to define chemical mode of action and pre-disease signatures..
The article covering the event was published in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ (NIEHS) newsletter, the Environmental Factor. Ernie Hood, the author, included an inset summary of Dr. Waters’s lecture, titled “Waters running deep.” Dr. Waters, an expert in both Genetic Toxicology and Information Systems, has maintained a strong scientific interest in increasingly important developments in toxicogenomics. Waters discussed chemicals present in the National Toxicology Program’s recently acquired DrugMatrix database, soon to be made public, and in TG-GATEs, a public Japanese toxicogenomics database. Waters was quoted as saying,“These two databases actually have about 82 chemicals in common that could be looked at to verify that the technology is giving you the same information in two different parts of the world,” He also noted the exceedingly valuable resource represented by the NTP’s extensive archive of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks from two-year carcinogenicity bioassays that now can be studied by genomic and sequencing technologies.
Click here to read the full article, and don’t miss the inset summary, “Waters running deep,” toward the bottom of the page!