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Dr. John (Jack) P. Vanden Heuvel received his B.S. degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1986 and his PhD in Environmental Toxicology in 1991, both from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Vanden Heuvel’s post-doctoral training was at the National Institutes of Environmental Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, NC in the Laboratory of Biochemical Risk Assessment. His first academic position was as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the School of Pharamcy, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He joined the faculty of Penn State in 1997. He is currently a Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Penn State University and serves as coordinator of the Undergraduate Toxicology Program. Since 2004 Dr. Vanden Heuvel has served as Co-Director for the Center for Excellence in Nutrigenomics and is a member of the Executive Committee of the NIH-funded Penn State Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI).