Dr. Paul E. Thomas, Ph.D. is Professor in the Chemical Biology Department of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is director of the NIEHS/EOHSI Proteomics Facility which is part of the Bionomics Research & Training Center (BRTC). His research interests are in breast cancer cause and prevention and the possible role of cytochromes P450 in the activation/inactivation of endogenous hormones.

Additionally, his research seeks to understand whether environmental estrogens are in part responsible for the continual rise in the incidence of breast cancer in industrialized countries. He is an internationally-recognized expert in developing antibodies that distinguish individual enzymes of cytochrome P450.

Dr. Thomas has produced over 100 different monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies that have been widely used to study the regulation, organ distribution, intracellular localization and function of these enzymes. He is an active mentor of the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology (JGPT) for students, one of the directors of the Biochemical Toxicology Tract as well as one of the directors of the Tract course: “Biochemical Toxicology.” Dr. Paul E. Thomas has authored or co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles.



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