Eric Hooker, M.S. is a Toxicologist and a new member of the Tetra Tech Sciences team. He has over 10 years of experience in toxicology including preclinical studies for pharmaceutical development. His experiences include project management of toxicology, teratology, and toxicokinetic studies using rodents and rabbits, developing study protocols, reviewing data, and writing study reports. His laboratory work included small animal techniques, primary mammalian cell culture, Ames bacterial mutagenesis assays, surgical procedures, handling hazardous and controlled substances, and GC-MS chemical analysis. Additionally, he has experience reviewing toxicity data to write comprehensive chemical safety assessments of consumer product ingredients. He has a BS in Psychology from Old Dominion University (1993) and a MS in Pharmacology and Toxicology from Virginia Commonwealth University (2000). Mr. Hooker has been approved as a candidate for certification with the American Board of Toxicology.

Key project areas for Mr. Hooker include:

• Toxicology study design to meet regulatory guidelines.
• Toxicology data review and analysis.
• Critical evaluation of literature regarding chemical safety.

Recent Publications and Presentations:

Duncan PM and Hooker EP. The role of sympathetic arousal in discrimination of insulin-produced hypoglycemia, Behavioral Pharmacology, 8: 389-395, 1997.

Coleman CN, Mason T, Hooker EP, and Robinson SE. Developmental effects of intermittent prenatal exposure to 1,1,1-trichloroethane in the rat, Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 21(6): 699-708, 1999.

Hooker EP. Final report of the amended safety assessment of dioscorea villosa (wild yam) root extract, International Journal of Toxicology, 23(2): 49-54, 2004.

Hooker EP. Re-review of the safety of dibutylphthalate, diethylphthalate, and dimethyphthalate, International Journal of Toxicology, 24(1): 34-42, 2005.

Hooker EP. writing for Andersen A. Final report on the safety assessment of benzaldehyde. International Journal of Toxicology 25 (Suppl 1): 11-27, 2006.

Hooker EP. Final report on the safety assessment of triethylene glycol and PEG-4. International Journal of Toxicology 25 (Suppl 2): 121-138, 2006.

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Contact info: e-mail eric.hooker@sciences.com ; phone (571) 527-1708