National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA

Dr. William Suk is currently the Chairman of the Pacific Basin Consortium and Director, Office of Program Development, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). His work at the NIEHS covers the assessment of national and international efforts in biomedical research and its potential applications in determining adverse effects on human health resulting from exposure to environmental agents. He is responsible for designing, developing, and managing national and international programs that focus on those areas of research pertinent to the Institute's mission in experimental and molecular biology and population-based studies. To do so effectively, Dr. Suk has maintained extensive contacts with the academic and industrial scientific communities; intramural programs of the Institute as well as extramural and intramural programs of other institutes at NIH; and scientists and administrators of Federal, state, professional, and private organizations, nationally and internationally.

Dr. Suk also serves, and has served since its inception, as Director of the NIEHS Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Training Program, a program established by Congress as part of the reauthorization of Superfund in 1986. Dr. Suk has had a sustained interest in linking exposures with disease etiologies and in developing research and prevention strategies to reduce risk to environmentally induced diseases and disorders.

Dr. Suk received his Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina and his PhD in Microbiology from the George Washington University Medical Center.

Dr. William A. Suk
Director, Office of Program Development
Division of Extramural Research and Training
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Telephone: (919) 541-0797
Facsimile: (919) 541-4937
E-mail: suk@niehs.nih.gov