Jeffrey Laskin, Ph.D.
Professor
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Toxicology Division
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

Research Interests:

Exposure to the Sun and Ultraviolet Light; Chemical Effects on the Skin; Cancer Chemotherapy; and Chemical Carcinogenesis.

Publications:

Chiu, H., Gardner, C.R., Dambach, D.M., Brittingham, J.A., Durham, S.K., Laskin, J.D., Laskin, D.L. Role of p55 tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 in acetaminophen-induced antioxidant defense. Am J Physiol Gastrointesst Liver Physiol (in press) 2003.

Fakhrzadeh, L., Laskin, J.D., Gardner, C.R., Laskin, D.L. SOD+/+ Mice are Resistant to Ozone-induced Tissue Injury and Increases in Nitric Oxide and TNF-. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol (in press) 2003.

Heck, D.E., Ventrano, A.M., Mariano, T.M., Laskin, J.D. UVB light stimulates production of reactive oxygen species: unexpected role for catalase. J Biol. Chem. 278:22432-22436. 2003.

Xu, X., Mariano, T.M., Laskin, J.D., Weisel, C.P. Percutaneous absorption of trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, and halokentones, toxicol. Apll. Pharmacol. 184:19-26. 2002.

Laskin, J.D., Laskin, D.L (eds.). Cell and Molecular Biology of Nitric Oxide. Marcel Dekker, Inc., NY, 1999.

Awards and Honors:

1981-1984 NIH New Investigator Award