Helena Hogberg-Durdock

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Helena Hogberg PhD joined the NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) within the Division of Translational Toxicology (DTT), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in December 2021, where she is conducting research drawing on her broad expertise in applying in vitro methods to assessing developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) potential of chemicals.

Previously she was the Deputy Director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) within the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School for Public Health. She received her Ph.D. her in toxicology from Stockholm University but performed her research at the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) in Ispra, Italy.

She serves on the expert groups for Thyroid Disruption and DNT of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); the Scientific Advisory Boards for the European Commission-funded Horizon 2020 grant, “Novel Testing Strategies for Endocrine Disruptors in the Context of Developmental NeuroToxicity (ENDpoiNTs)”, the Michael J Fox Foundation and the International Foundation for Ethical Research. She is also a member of the OECD Adverse Outcome Pathway Knowledge Base working groups and the Methods2AOP collaboration.  

Previously she served the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scientific Advisory Panel for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; on new approach methodologies for DNT assessment.