Handbook of Toxicogenomics: A Strategic View of Current Research and Applications

Toxicogenomics is a new, dynamic and very promising field that can help optimize toxicity analyses and streamline research into active substances. It is of interest not only for basic research and development, but also from a legal and ethical perspective. Here, experts from all the fields mentioned will find solid information provided by an international team of experienced authors. With its approach as an interdisciplinary overview, it will prove particularly useful for all those needing to develop appropriate research strategies.
The authors work for major research institutions, such as the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine (Germany), the German Cancer Research Center, the National Institute of Environmental Health Science (USA), the National Institute of Health Science (Japan) or for companies like Affymetrix, Altana Pharma, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bruker, Merck, Nimblegen, Novartis, and Syngenta. Coverage ranges from the technology platforms applied, including DNA arrays or proteomics, via the bioinformatics tools required, right up to applications of toxicogenomics presented in numerous case studies, while also including an overview of national programs and initiatives as well as regulatory perspectives.
Walter Rosenthal, Director of the Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology in Berlin, praises the book thus: "I would like to congratulate the publishers of this handbook, one that deals with a extremely hot topic. They have succeeded in gaining as authors leading representatives from this field. The Handbook impressively shows how modern genomic research is leading to rapid advances and new insights within toxicology."

Jürgen Borlak received a degree in biochemistry and a PhD in biochemical toxicology at the University of Reading, UK, in 1988. He was a Cancer Research Campaign-founded postdoctoral research scientist and in 1990 joined the Marion Merrel Dow Research Institute in Strasbourg, France, as Senior Research Biochemist. In 1998, he was appointed Director of the Center of Drug Research and Molecular Pharmacology at the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine; the centre focuses largely on the molecular effects of drugs and xenobiotics, using a wide range of methods and technologies in cell biology, genomics and molecular biology. In 2000 Jürgen Borlak was habilitated in pharmacology and toxicology and received the venia legendi at the Medical School of Hannover. In 2002 he was appointed as full professor to the chair of Pharmaco- and Toxicogenomics at the Medical School of Hannover. He was also appointed as Professor of Molecular Anatomy at the Medical Faculty of the University Leipzig in 2003.
Jürgen Borlak is a member of, among others, the Biochemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Society of Experimental Biology and the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics. He is a reviewer for various scientific journals and appointed by the World Health Organisation as an expert on chemical and drug safety.