Martyn Smith, professor in the School of Public Health

Martyn T. Smith, Ph.D., is professor of Toxicology in the School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1980 from St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London and completed post-doctoral training in toxicology with Professor Sten Orrenius at the Karolinska Institute. He currently teaches Advanced Toxicology and Introduction to Toxicology. Since 1987 he has been the director of the NIEHS Superfund Research Program at Berkeley. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications, has served as a consultant or grant reviewer for many institutions, and has qualified as an expert witness in toxicology in legal proceedings. His research interests include the causes of leukemia and lymphoma and the application of biological markers in toxicology and epidemiology.