Bruce A. Fowler, Ph.D.

Recruitment and Screening Panel

Bruce A. Fowler received a BS degree in Fisheries (Marine Biology) from the University of Washington in 1968 and a PhD in Pathology from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1972. He was a staff scientist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1972 until 1987 when he became Director of the University of Maryland System-wide Program in Toxicology and Professor of Pathology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Fowler, who is an internationally recognized expert on the toxicology of metals, has served on a number of state, national, and international committees in his areas of expertise. These include Maryland Governor's Council on Toxic Substances (Chair), National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Committees on Toxicology, Toxicology Information Committee, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Measuring Lead in Critical Populations (Chair), Biological Markers of Urinary Toxicology, Committee on the Evaluation of Augmenting Potable Water Supplies with Reclaimed Water, and the Subcommittee on Arsenic in Drinking Water of the Committee on Toxicology. He has also served as a temporary advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research Against Cancer (IARC). Dr Fowler has been honored as a Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (1990), a Fulbright Scholar, and Swedish Medical Research Council Visiting Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (1994 -1995). In 1998 he was selected as a Colgate-Palmolive visiting professor of In Vitro Toxicology at the University of Washington, and, in 1999, was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. He currently serves as Chairman of the Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals under the International Commission on Occupational Health, as a consultant to the USEPA Science Advisory Board and a member of the Fulbright Scholarship review committee for Scandinavia (1999-). Dr. Fowler is the author of over 180 papers and book chapters. He has been the editor or co-editor of 4 books or monographs on metal toxicology and mechanisms of chemical-induced cell injury. His current research is focused on the toxicology of chemical mixtures, particularly in relation to semiconductors and the role(s) of lead-binding proteins in mediating the toxicity of this ubiquitous metal to the kidney and brain. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals in toxicology and environmental health.