Faculty

Raymond S.H. Yang

Dr. Yang is Professor of Toxicology in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. Dr. Yang has had extensive experience in toxicology in industry (Mellon Institute/Union Carbide Corporation), government (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Toxicology Program), and academia (Cornell University, Albany Medical College, CSU). He established and developed the Quantitative and Computational Toxicology Group at CSU. Dr. Yang believes that the application of computer to toxicology, just as computer applications in our life, will become more and more prevalent. Thus, the development of "Virtual Cells," "Virtual Organs," "Virtual Animals," and "Virtual Humans" is only the matter of time. In that sense, the CSU Quantitative and Computational Toxicology Group is at the beginning of establishing a new form of "bioinformatics" in that we are building the pieces of the puzzle on the complex biological processes involved in toxicology.

Dr. Yang's research interests lie in the areas of toxicology of chemical mixtures, carcinogenesis, physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling, biochemical reaction network modeling, and risk assessment.