We are a group of pioneering senior scientists in the endocrine disruption field. Many of us were among the first to raise the alarm about endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the environment and their adverse effects on health. Many of us entered the field accidentally, for example by finding contamination in our laboratory.
Together, we have many hundreds of years of collective wisdom and expertise in EDCs. And yet, after decades of work, we now understand that first rate science is not enough; these advances have been largely ignored by policy makers and industry.
EDCs, manufactured worldwide and typically sold in massive quantities by the chemical industry, present at least as great a threat as climate change and infectious disease to the sustainability of our global civilization and the healthy, happy existence of people everywhere.
Our vision is to use our expertise in science to reduce the production and use of EDCs in the economy in order to protect life itself. We aim to put our unrivaled collective wisdom at the service of life to protect people everywhere from the health effects of EDCs.
Members
Åke Bergman, PhD
Senior Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University
College of Environment Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai
Linda S. Birnbaum, PhD, DABT, ATS
Scientist Emeritus (Retired)
Former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Toxicology Program (NTP)
Scholar in Residence, Duke University
Terrence Collins, PhD
Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry and Director, Institute for Green Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Sally Darney, PhD
Retired. Former National Program Director in EPA’s Office of Research and Development
Former Editor-in-Chief for Environmental Health Perspectives at NIEHS
Barbara Demeneix, PhD, DSc
Emeritus Professor, Comparative Physiology Laboratory, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, French National Centre for Scientific Research
Brenda Eskenazi, PhD
Maxwell Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor and Chair of Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark
Jerrold Heindel, PhD
Retired. Former Health Science Administrator, NIEHS
Patricia Hunt, PhD
Regents Professor, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University
Taisen Iguchi, PhD
Professor Emeritus, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
Michele Marcus, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Environmental Health and Pediatrics, Emory University
John McLachlan, PhD
Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine
Retha Newbold, MS
Researcher Emeritus, National Toxicology Program (NTP) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Carlos Sonnenschein, MD
Professor Emeritus, Integrative Physiology & Pathobiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston
Fellow, Centre Cavaillès, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Ana M. Soto, MD
Professor of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston
Fellow, Centre Cavaillès, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Frederick vom Saal, PhD
Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Division of Biological Sciences,
University of Missouri-Columbia
R. Thomas Zoeller, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Visiting Professor, School of Science and Technology, Örebro University, Sweden