Academics
We offer a Biomedical Science Graduate program with students pursuing Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees with a focus in Toxicology.
Jacob Ross Dunbar, III, B.S, M.S, Ph.D.; May, 1987.
Dissertation title: Lung Paraquat Content and Effects on the Lung Glutathione Antioxidant System, NADPH and PolyaminesResulting from Intravenous Coinfusion of Paraquat and Putrescine to Rats.
CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
South College School of Pharmacy
3904 Lonas Drive
Knoxville, TN 37909
Sherry Kay Cox, Ph.D.; May, 1988.
(Ph.D., University of Tennessee, May, 2003.)
Master's Thesis title: The Toxicokinetics of 1,3 Butylene Glycol Versus Ethanol in the Treatment of Ethylene Glycol Poisoning.
CURRENT POSITION: Clinical Assistant Professor & Director of the Pharmacology Laboratory
University of Tennessee
College of Veterinary Medicine
Knoxville, TN
Thane Scott Thurmond, Ph.D.; May, 1995.
Dissertation title: Indomethacin Reduces Splenic Red Pulp Macrophage Population in New Zealand White Rabbits.
CURRENT POSITION: Regulatory Toxicologist
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
5100 Paint Branch PKWY
College Park, MD 20740
Tessa Serex, Ph.D. DABT; August, 1998.
Dissertation title: In Vitro Assessment of the Toxicity of Cocaine and its Metabolites in the Human Umbilical Artery.
CURRENT POSITION: Senior Research Toxicologist
DuPont Haskell Laboratories
1090 Elkton Rd.
P.O. Box 50
Newark, DE 19714-0050
David Burrows, Ph.D.; December 2004
Dissertation title: Papain, A Novel Urine Adulterant.
Current Position: Forensic Toxicologist
Department of Forensic Sciences
Western Laboratory
6600 Northside High School Road
Roanoke, VA 24019
Trista Wright, B.S.; Currently enrolled (anticipated graduation 2012)
Dissertation Research: Effects of Fire on Ethanol and Ethyl Glucuronide in Postmortem Specimens.
STUDENT ACADEMIC AWARDS
Delphia Marshall, MSII, received the First Place Award at the Sixth Annual Student National Medical Association's ResearchForum, Atlanta, GA, 1990, for her research entitled "Evaluation of the Chromatographic and Immunological Methods for the Detectionand Confirmation of Flumazenil, a Benzodiazepine Antagonist in Urine" and "GC/MS Method for the Determination of Flumazenil in Plasma and Urine".
Scott Thurmond, M.S., received the Second Place Award at the Southeastern Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology,Knoxville, TN, 1994, for his research entitled "Toxicopathology of Indomethacin in the Spleen of Ovariectomized Estradiol Supplemented, New Zealand White (NZW) Rabbits".
Tessa Long, B.S., received the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Southeastern Regional Chapter of the Societyof Toxicology, Athens, GA, 1997, for her research entitled "Comparison of the Effects of Cocaine, Norcocaine and Cocaethylene on theVasoconstrictive Response to Serotonin and Norepinephrine in the Human Umbilical Artery".
Tessa Long, B.S., received the Second Place Award at the Fourteenth Annual Student Research Forum of East Tennessee StateUniversity in the Senior Graduate Student Division - 1997, for her research entitled "5HT(2) Antagonist Ketanserin Blocks the Vasoconstrictive Toxicity Produced by Cocaine in Isolated Human Umbilical Arteries".
Tessa Long, B.S., received a Society of Toxicology Graduate Student Travel Award to the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology, Seattle, WA, 1998, to present her research entitled, "5HT2 Antagonist Ketanserin Blocks Potentiation of Norepinephrine Vasoconstriction Produced by Cocaine in Isolated Human Umbilical Arteries."
Tessa Long, B.S., received an Educational Research Award from the Society of Forensic Toxicologists, Albuquerque, NM, 1998, for her research entitled, "In vitro Assessment of the Toxicity of Cocaine and its Metabolites in the Human Umbilical Artery."
David Burrows, M.S., received the Third Place Award at the Southeastern Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology, Athens, GA, 2002, for his research entitled, "A Fatal Drug Interaction Between Oxycodone and Clonazepam."
David Burrows, M.S., Received the First Place Award for best poster at the Southeastern Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology, Chattanooga, TN, 2003 for his research entitled "The Distribution of Sevoflurane in a Sevofulrane Induced Death".
David Burrows, M.S., Received an Educational Research Award from the Society of Forensic Toxicologists, Washington, DC, 2004 for his research entitled "Papain, A Novel Urine Adulterant".
Trista H. Wright, B.S. Received an Educational Research Award from the Society of Forensic Toxicologists, San Francisco, CA, 2011 for her research entitled "Comparison of Postmortem Vitreous Humor Ethyl Glucuronide Concentration in Humans and Sprague Dawley Rats Following Ingestion of Ethanol".
