B. Bhaskar Gollapudi, Ph.D.

Dr. Bhaskar Gollapudi is a Senior Managing Scientist in Exponent’s Health Sciences Center for Toxicology and Mechanistic Biology located in Alexandria, VA. He specializes in molecular toxicology/chemical carcinogenesis with emphasis on the identification of mode of action and human relevance of toxicity findings. He has more than 30 years of research and issues management experience at a major (agro)chemical company addressing the safety of a diverse portfolio of substances. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, the official journal of the US Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society. He serves on a number of scientific committees including the Committee on Toxicology of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and the International Workshops on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT). He is the recipient of the 2014 Arnold J. Lehman Award from the Society of Toxicology in recognition of his contributions to the field of risk assessment and chemical regulation.