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Joshua Hamilton Appointed Chief Academic & Scientific Officer of the MBL
The MBL has hired Joshua W. Hamilton to be the laboratory’s Chief Academic and Scientific Officer (CASO). Dr. Hamilton is expected to begin his position in early June.
Dr. Hamilton will be responsible for leadership, planning, oversight, and administration of all MBL academic programs and will develop and oversee policies relating to scientific research and commercial relations with private enterprise, including intellectual property and technology transfer. He will also play a critical role in the continued development of the Brown-MBL Graduate program. Dr. Hamilton replaces William Beers who retired last summer.
Dr. Hamilton received a B.S. in biology from Bridgewater State College, and an M.S. in genetics, and a Ph.D. in genetic toxicology, both from Cornell University. Following postdoctoral research in Dartmouth’s chemistry department, he joined the faculty of the department of pharmacology and toxicology in the Dartmouth Medical School in 1990. He is the founding director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth, a position he has held since 2000. He is also the director of the Dartmouth NIEHS-NIH sponsored Superfund Basic Research program project on Toxic Metals, the associate director of the Dartmouth NCRR-NIH COBRE program project on lung pathobiology, and is director of Dartmouth's molecular biology & proteomics core facility. He also serves as an associate director for Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Dr. Hamilton’s research interests focus generally on molecular and environmental toxicology. Specifically, he investigates how environmental chemicals, particularly toxic metals, affect biochemical processes in ways that might affect ecosystems and contribute to human disease risk, with a particular emphasis on endocrine disruption. His laboratory also pioneered new methods for using genomics tools in model systems including aquatic species for investigating effects of environmental toxicants on individuals and populations. His research dovetails nicely with existing MBL programs, including the Bay Paul Center and the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health. Dr. Hamilton will bring his research program here to the MBL and is looking forward to collaborating with scientists of the MBL and Woods Hole research community.
