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Susan M. Leaman, M.S. |
Education
Ph.C., University of Washington, 2006, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Research proposal “Effects of Ambient Particulate Matter on Glutamate Cysteine Ligase Gene Expression, Transcriptional Activation, and Enzyme Activity in a Murine Macrophage Cell-line.”
M.S., University of Washington, 2002, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Thesis project “Role of Negative Cell Cycle Regulators in Ethanol Inhibition of Astroglial Cell Proliferation.”
B.A., Northwest University, 1995, Behavioral Science.
Biographical Sketch
Susan M. Leaman, M.S., staff toxicologist, has just begun her career in scientific consulting after attending the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences program at the University of Washington. Her primary area of focus is toxicology especially relating to the nervous, immune and respiratory systems with additional background in environmental and occupational health and behavioral science. Ms. Leaman’s work experience at Intertox includes litigation support for a case involving mold exposure and writing field guides for growers concerning food safety in relation to biological agents.
In March 2006, Ms. Leaman earned candidacy status in the Ph.D. toxicology program at the University of Washington’s School of Public Health. Ms. Leaman’s doctoral work concentrated on the antioxidant response to ambient particulate matter in phagocytic cells within the lung. In June of 2002, she earned her Master of Science degree in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences from the University of Washington. Her thesis explored the role of negative cell cycle regulators in astroglial cell proliferation due to ethanol exposure. Ms. Leaman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Behavioral Science in 1995, from Northwest University.
Published Abstracts
Leaman S.M., Fernandez C., Vliet P.A., White C.C., Rosenfeld M.E., Luchtel D.L., and Kavanagh T.J. 2004. The Effects of Particulate Matter on Glutamate Cysteine Ligase in RAW 264.7 Cells. Society of Toxicology, Baltimore.
Costa L.G., Guizzetti M., Leaman S.M. 2001. Glial cells in the developmental neurotoxicity of ethanol. International Neurotoxicology Association.
Leaman S.M., Winn H.R., Stanness K.A., Grant G.A., Janigro D. 1999. Trans-endothelial permeability to zidovudine in a Dynamic Model of the Human Blood-Brain Barrier. Society of Neuroscience 25(2) 699.16.
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Publications
McAllister M.S., Krizanac-Bengez, L., Macchia F., Naftalin R.J., Pedley K.C., Mayber, M.R., Marroni M., Leaman S.M., Stanness K.A., Janigro D. 2001. Mechanisms of glucose transport at the blood-brain barrier: an in vitro study. Brain Research 904(1):20-30.
Janigro D., Leaman S.M., Stanness K.A. 1999. Dynamic in vitro modeling of the blood-brain barrier: a novel tool for studies of drug delivery to the brain. Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Today 2(1): 7-12.
Sotero de Menezes M., Leaman S.M. 1999 The Ketogenic diet in the Treatment of the Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy: Part I - The Scientific Basis for the Ketogenesis. Brazilian Journal of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology 5(2) : 51-58.
Sotero de Menezes M., Leaman S.M.. 1999 The Ketogenic Diet II: Indications, Clinical Management of Patients on the Diet and Efficacy Data. Brazilian Journal of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology 5 (4): 146-160.
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Professional Memberships
• Society of Toxicology
• American Physiological Society
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