Michael P. Holsapple

Executive Director of the International Life Sciences Institute’s Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI)

Michael P. Holsapple is the Executive Director of the International Life Sciences Institute’s Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Holsapple has published over 150 manuscripts and chapters. After completing two years of postdoctoral work at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, he was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1989. Dr. Holsapple served as the Director of his department’s graduate program from 1987 until 1991, and he received the “Professor of the Year Award” in his department in 1989. Dr. Holsapple joined the Toxicology, Environmental Research and Consulting Laboratories at the Dow Chemical Company in 1994 and was promoted to Scientist in 2000. His responsibilities included serving as the Technical Leader of both the Immunotoxicology and the Respiratory Toxicology Groups. Dr. Holsapple left Dow in 2002 to join the HESI staff. Dr. Holsapple is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Michigan State University. He is a member of the American College of Toxicology and the Society of Toxicology (SOT). He is a charter member of the Immunotoxicology Specialty Section in the SOT. In recognition of his contributions to toxicology, Dr. Holsapple received the SOT Achievement Award in 1992. Dr. Holsapple became the Vice President-elect of SOT in 2008.

Publications

Science for Policy Project, Science for Policy Project - Panel Members