Terrance J. Kavanagh, PhD, MS
About
Dr. Kavanagh joined the faculty at the University of Washington in the Departments of Medicine and Environmental Health in 1989, and is currently Emeritus Professor in the UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Dr. Kavanagh is board certified in toxicology, and is a Full Member of the Society of Toxicology, a Member of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry, a Fellow of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His areas of research include glutathione metabolism, redox biology/toxicology, toxicogenomics, nanotoxicology and advanced in vitro methods for evaluating chemical safety. He is the Associate Director of the UW Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment, and serves on External Scientific Advisory Boards for a number of NIEHS-funded Core Centers of Excellence.
Education
- PhD, Michigan State University
- MS, Michigan State University
- BS, University of Michigan
Affiliations
Mentorship
Not available to mentor new PhD and Master's students in autumn 2021.
DEOHS Students Mentored
Effects of common e-cigarette compounds on immortalized mouse hepatocytes and glutathione as a potential modulator of susceptibility
Michael Anderson | MS Thesis | 2020 | View
Differential Susceptibility to Engineered Nanomaterial Induced Lung Inflammation and Toxicity
David Scoville | PhD | 2017 | View
Plasticity of Antioxidant Defense Pathways in Response to Aging and Cadmium in Glutathione-Deficient Mice
Chistopher Schapp | PhD | 2017 | View
The Modulation of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube-induced Acute Lung Pathology by Mouse Strain, Glutathione Status, and Nanotube Characteristics
Megan Cartwright | PhD | 2015 | View
Modulation of Glutathione Associated with Methylmercury Exposure in Mice
Sally Thompson | PhD | 1996 | View