Short Biographs of Lecturers and Invited Participants
At the 1st Chinese open workshop on endocrine disruptors – 2015, Shanghai October 22-24, 2015
INVITED SPEAKERS (Listed in order of appearance in the program)
Ms. Viktoria Li, the Consul General. She has been the Head of Mission in Shanghai since 1
September, 2012. Ms. Li has previously served at the Embassy of Sweden in Beijing. Before that, she
was the Head of Section West Africa and Horn of Africa in Stockholm, and she has also worked at the
Department for International Law and Human Rights in Stockholm, at the Swedish Representation to
the EU in Brussels, at the Embassy of Sweden in Rome and the Embassy of Sweden in Zagreb.
Viktoria Li is a lawyer and political scientist.
Prof. Pei Gang, President of Tongji University. Professor Pei is an Academician of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Professor Pei is Biochemist and Cell Biologist. His research focus is on: Gprotein coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling and its cross-talk with other cellular signal pathways; The
epigenetic regulatory mechanisms of GPCR signalling and potential roles of GPCR signalosomes in
important biological processes closely regulated by epigenetic events, including the development of
embryonic stem cells, the reprogramming of somatic cells and etc.; Roles of GPCR signalling in the
initiation, development, prevention and treatment of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s diseases, diabetes,
and autoimmune disorders.
Email: peigang@tongji.edu.cn
Prof. Chunxia Wang is Director of Division of Environmental Chemistry Department, National
Science Foundation of China. She graduated from Health Science Center of Peking University,
majoring in Medicinal Chemistry (bachelor), and Bioinorganic Chemistry (master). She received a
doctorate in Environmental Science at Research Center for Eco-environmental Science, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Professor Wang conducted researches in Environmental Chemistry and
Environmental Toxicology at State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry.
Email: cxwang@mail.nsfc.gov.cn
Åke Bergman is Director of Swedish Toxicology Sciences Research Center since March 1, 2014. He
is Head of Unit of Toxicology Sciences, Södertälje at Karolinska Institutet and has served as professor
in Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University since 1993 and Guest professor at Tongji
University in Shanghai from 2012. Bergman has a broad interdisciplinary approach in his research
with particular focus on organic environmental chemistry and with emphasis on persistent organic
pollutants and related compounds. He has worked with chemical synthesis, chemical reactivity,
chemical analysis, kinetics of pollutants, e.g. of PCBs, DDTs, brominated flame retardants. Bergman
has a long lasting interest in research on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Bergman has served
at numerous national and international expert groups and review panels. He was the coordinator of the
UNEP/WHO program panel for the state of the science of endocrine disruption 2012.
Email: ake.bergman@swetox.se
Prof. Daqiang Yin is Deputy Dean of the College of Environmental Science and Engineering and
Director of Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment at Tongji University. His research is
focused on Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment. He has worked with development effects and the
mechanisms of EDCs on fish, e.g. of PCP, PBDEs.
Email: yindq@tongji.edu.cn
Dr. Jerrold J. Heindel is a Scientific Program Director in the Division of Extramural Research and
Training at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle
Park North Carolina, USA. He has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan and
worked in the area of reproductive biology and toxicology while on the faculty at the University of
Texas Medical School at Houston and the University of Mississippi before coming to the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He is responsible for designing, developing, administering
and assessing the impact of the NIEHS grants programs in endocrine disruptors, developmental basis
of diseases, reproductive toxicology and obesity/diabetes. He was a member of the UNEP/WHO
program panel for developing the state of the science of endocrine disruption 2012.
Email: heindelj@niehs.nih.gov
Prof. Guibin Jiang is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Director-General
of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and
Director of the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology. He is the
Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T). His research is mainly focused
on Environmental Analysis and Toxicology. His methodical and comprehensive research resulted in
significant achievements on analytical development and environmental characterization of persistent
organic pollutants (POPs), and the speciation of organometallic compounds, which contributed to the
improvement and internationalization of these scientific fields in China.
Email: gbjiang@rcees.ac.cn
Prof. R. Thomas Zoeller, Ph.D., is Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
His early training was in molecular neuroendocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda, MD. His current research focuses on the role of thyroid hormone in brain development with
an emphasis on the fetal brain. Dr. Zoeller’s lab also studies the mechanisms by which environmental
endocrine disruptors can interfere with thyroid hormone action in the brain and his laboratory has
published over 100 peer reviewed papers on these topics. Dr. Zoeller was a member of the U.S. EPA's
Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee working group on Screening and
Testing in the 1990’s. He is currently a chartered member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board and is
chair of their Exposure and Human Health Committee. He has received numerous awards for his
work, including the “Scientist of the Year – 2002” from the Learning Disabilities Association, a
Samuel F. Conti Award for Research Excellence, and recently received the UMass Chancellor’s
Medal. He has written extensively on issues of Endocrine Disruption and Public Policy. Zoeller was a
member of the UNEP/WHO program panel for developing the state of the science of endocrine
disruption 2012.
Email: tzoeller@bio.umass.edu
Prof. Yongning Wu is Director of Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of
Health in China and Chief Scientist of the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment
(CFSA) since 2012. He has served as professor in Contamination Monitoring at Chinese Center for
Disease Control and Prevention since 2000 and Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine from 1986.
Wu has a broad interdisciplinary approach focused on food chemistry and toxicology and with
emphasis on persistent toxic pollutants. He has worked with dietary exposure and body burden via
chemical analysis and biomonitoring, e.g. of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, OCPs, PFRs and PFAS.
Email: wuyongning@cfsa.net.cn
Prof. Zijian Wang is a Professor of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences. During
1983-1985, he worked in Forel Institute in Geneva University and EAWAG in Zurich, Switzerland. In
1987, he worked in Pharmaceutical Department in Fukoka University, Japan. He is member of expert
group in the fields of resources and environment in the National High-Tech R&D Program since 2001.
His research is focuses on water quality issues. The research activities cover in vitro and in vivo
bioassays, and aquatic toxicology of EDCs. In 2006, he created the Asian Journal of Ecotoxicology
and acts as the Chief Editor.
Email: wangzj@rcees.ac.cn
Assoc. prof. Patrik Andersson is a lecturer in environmental chemistry at the Chemistry Department,
Umeå University, Sweden since 2008. His research focus on fate and effect studies of organic
pollutants including e.g. PCBs, PCDD/Fs, flame retardants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and
pharmaceuticals. He has a long experience in the use of in silico/computational approaches including
quantitative structure-activity relationship modelling and pattern recognition methods for assessing
environmental and health risks of chemicals.
Email: patrik.andersson@chem.umu.se
Prof. Olle Söder is Professor and Head of the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health,
Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden. He is Visiting Professor of Shandong University,
China, and Dr. Hon. Causa of the State Medical University, Minsk, Belarus. Olle Söder is Head of the
Pediatric Endocrinology Academic Unit, and PI of its Reproductive Biology Research group, and
Senior Clinical Consultant of Pediatric Endocrinology at Astrid Lindgren Children´s Hospital at the
Karolinska University Hospital. He has had multiple national and international assignments in the field
of pediatric endocrinology. He is a former member of the European Society for Pediatric
Endocrinology Council and was Chair of its Strategic and Finance Committee (Treasurer), 2005-2011.
Professor Söder was the President of the Swedish Pediatric Society, 2012-2014. He is the author of
more than 200 research papers listed on Web of Science and in addition multiple chapters in text
books, proceedings and other publications. His research focuses on reproductive biology, late adverse
effects of pediatric cancer treatment, and health effects and mechanisms of actions of endocrine
disrupting chemicals.
Email: olle.soder@ki.se
Prof. Carl-Gustaf Bornehag is Professor and head of Public Health Sciences at Department of
Health at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is adjunct professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai, New York, USA. His research focus is on early life exposure for environmental factors such as
endocrine disrupting chemicals and the importance for children´s health and development. He is
principal investigator of two major epidemiological studies in Sweden, the Dampness in Buildings and
Health (DBH) study (following more than 10,000 children from childhood up in adulthood) and the
SELMA study (following more than 2,000 mother-child pairs from early pregnancy, over birth and up
in school age).
Email: carl-gustaf.bornehag@kau.se
Prof. Shunqing Xu is Deputy Dean of Department of Environmental Health, Tongji medical College,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He as a Visiting Scholar worked at Max
Planck Institute of Biochemistry and University of Tuebingen, Germany. His research is focused on
environmental pollutants on fetal origins of adult diseases. The research activities cover toxicity of
endocrine disruptors (EDCs) on developmental origins of adult disease, and develop bioassay methods
to detect EDCs or biomarkers in environment and assess their combined effects.
Email: xust@hust.edu.cn
Prof. Juliette Legler is Professor of Toxicology and Environmental Health at the Institute for
Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is Deputy Head of
IVM’s Chemistry and Biology section and Director of the SENSE Research School for SocioEconomic and Natural Sciences of the Environment, a joint venture of the environmental research
institutes of ten Dutch universities. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of toxicity of
chemicals and the effects of chemical exposure on humans and the environment. She is particularly
interested in understanding the impacts of early life exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals on the
development of obesity and related metabolic disorders later in life.
Email: juliette.legler@vu.nl and after Jan. 1, 2016 it is: juliette.legler@brunel.ac.uk
Prof. Xiaodong Cheng is currently a full Professor of Immunology, Pharmacology, and Integrative
Chinese Medicine; Director of the National TCM Master Training Program; at School of Life Sciences
and Technology; Joint Professor of clinical Chinese medicine and Principal Investigator, at Research
Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University. He is also the “Oriental
Scholar” Distinguished Professor of TCM at Yue-Yang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM). He is both a basic research scientist and a clinical physician of TCM. His
research interests are now focused on: Neuro-endocrine-immune network regulation and inflammatory
diseases; Therapeutic approach of TCM in treating immunological disorders including cancer,
autoimmune, infectious diseases; Regulatory roles of TCM in inducing pluripotent stem cells
including cancer stem cells.
Email: xcheng@tongji.edu.cn
Prof. Andreas Kortenkamp is professor for human toxicology at the Institute of Environment,
Health and Societies at Brunel University London. His research interests are in exploring
environmental pollutants and their combined effects on endocrine diseases. He has published
numerous papers on the prediction and experimental evaluation of combination effects of estrogenic,
anti-androgenic and genotoxic chemicals. Professor Kortenkamp has served on the US National
Academy of Sciences Panel on mixture risk assessment for phthalates, and on the National Academy
of Sciences Panel investigating non-monotonic dose-response relationships. On the recommendation
of the president of the US National Academy of Sciences, he became a member of the US Consumer
Health Advisory Panel on the assessment of phthalates. He has produced the State of the Art Report on
Mixture Toxicology for the European Commission, DG Environment. In 2012 he completed the State
of the Art Assessment of Endocrine Disrupters for the European Commission. He was a member of
the UNEP/WHO program panel for developing the state of the science of endocrine disruption 2012.
He was involved with several working groups of the European Food Safety Authority on developing
grouping criteria for mixture risk assessment for pesticides. He earned his Ph.D. from Bremen
University, Germany, and in 2001 started his academic career at the School of Pharmacy, University
of London. In July 2011 he joined Brunel University, West London.
Email: andreas.kortenkamp@brunel.ac.uk
Prof. Lei Xue has served as a professor in Molecular Genetics at Tongji University, School of Life
Science since 2009. He has used Drosophila, the fruit fly, as an animal model to study the genetic
mechanism of tumor progression. In particular, he has performed a genetic screen and identified a
dozen genes that regulate cell migration and tumor invasion.
Email: lei.xue@tongji.edu.cn
Dr Dazhong Xu is an Assistant Professor at Department of Pathology, New York Medical College
School of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Medicine,
New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Xu’s general research interests are cell signaling and
environmental carcinogenesis. His current research projects are focused on molecular and cellular
mechanisms mediating lung carcinogenesis by heavy metals and other airborne pollutants. Dr. Xu’s
research employs a broad spectrum of molecular, cellular, and genetic approaches.
Email: Dazhong_Xu@nymc.edu
Prof. Weidong Qu is Associate Dean of School of Public Health at Fudan University. He has served
as professor of Environmental Health at Fudan University since 2005 and Deputy Director of Key
Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education at Fudan University from 2012. Weidong’s
interesting for research focused on the potential adverse effects of water pollutants on human health.
Recent year his group worked in the cancer cluster area of Huai River Basin to investigate pollutants
and health effects. Weidong has a long lasting interest in endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and
disinfect by-products (DBPs).
Email: wdqu@fudan.edu.cn
Prof. Karen Kidd is a Canada Research Chair and Professor in the Biology Department at the
University of New Brunswick in Saint John, New Brunswick in eastern Canada. She is an
ecotoxicologist and spends her summers on lakes, rivers and coastal areas in populated and remote
areas of Canada and abroad to understand how various human activities affect aquatic ecosystems.
Karen has led or been involved in several whole ecosystem experiments to understand the effects of
synthetic estrogen, aquaculture and pesticides on lakes and wetlands. She studies the accumulation of
mercury, pesticides and industrial chemicals through stream and lake food webs in temperate through
arctic regions, and examines how industrial, aquacultural, and agricultural runoff and forest condition
affects the health of fish and invertebrates and the structure of aquatic food webs. She was a member
of the UNEP/WHO program panel for developing the state of the science of endocrine disruption
2012.
Email: kiddk@unb.ca
Prof. Ingvar Brandt has been Professor and Chair of environmental toxicology, and is currently
Senior Professor in environmental toxicology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has a background in
pharmacology and toxicology and was previously Professor of comparative toxicology at the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences. He has been a Director of pharmacological and toxicological
research in a major international pharmaceutical company, and is cofounder of two biotechnology
companies working to develop pharmacokinetic targeting of anticancer drugs. His research interests
include mechanisms for metabolism-dependent toxicity, developmental and reproductive toxicity, and
endocrine disruption of environmental pollutants and human pharmaceuticals. In recent years he has
carried out research on the ecotoxicological effects of human pharmaceuticals in aquatic wildlife.
Ingvar Brandt was involved in the preparation of the European Union-CSTEE opinion on human and
wildlife effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in 1999. He was a member of the UNEP/WHO
program panel for developing the state of the science of endocrine disruption in 2012.
Email: Ingvar.Brandt@ebc.uu.se
Prof. Jianying Hu is a professor in the College of Urban and Environmental Science and a professor
of Changjiang Scholars in the Field of Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, both at
Peking University. Hu has a broad interdisciplinary approach in her research with particular focus on
organic environmental chemistry and with emphasis on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). She
has worked with environmental monitoring, trophic transfer of chemicals through food web, PBPK
model, toxicology, and risk assessment of environmental pollutants.
Email: hujy@urban.pku.edu.cn
Prof. Bingsheng Zhou is a Professor of Institute of Hydrobiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He received Ph. D. from City University of Hong Kong, HK SAR, China. He took up his post-doctoral
training at the Department of Biology, McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Zhou's main research
interests primary focus on environmental toxicology at all levels from the molecular to the ecological.
Specific research examines persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and endocrine disrupted chemicals, in
particularly studies in the molecular mechanisms of toxicant-exposed model animals, cell lines and
primary cultured cells, and effects of POPs on reproduction, growth, development, genetic toxicity,
and developing biomarkers for early warning for the aquatic environments.
Email: bszhou@ihb.ac.cn
INVITED PARTICIPANTS (Listed in alphabetical order)
Assoc. prof. Lillemor Asplund is a lecturer in environmental chemistry at the Department of
Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her area of
expertise is analysis of environmental contaminants. She has worked with both POPs and their
metabolites. She has also been involved in projects regarding analysis for non-halogenated substances
(e.g. endocrine disrupters). Her research has nowadays a particular focus on halogenated natural
products with potential environmental effects.
Email: lillemor.asplund@aces.su.se
Prof. Jiayin Dai is Leader of ecotoxicology research group; Vice Director of Key Laboratory of
Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China. He finished his postdoctoral training in Department of Biochemistry, the Weill Medical
College of Cornell University. His research is focused on perfluorochemicals and halogenated
compounds.
Email: daijy@ioz.ac.cn
Prof. Elena Gorokhova is an expert in molecular ecology and ecotoxicology. Her research is focused
broadly on mechanisms of xenobiotic-induced responses and adaptations in aquatic biota, including
physiological and evolutionary effects of endocrine disrupting compounds. Specific emphasis is on
invertebrate models and integration of effects across biological organization levels and scales.
Email: elena.gorokhova@aces.su.se
Dr. Johan Lindberg is a Director of Bioanalysis at Swedish Toxicology Sciences Research Center.
His research is executed within the Unit of Toxicology and the Department of clinical pharmacology
at Karolinska Institute. His area of expertise is in the area of analytical organic chemistry and
metabolomics. He has a long experience from various positions in the Swedish pharmaceutical
industry. At AstraZeneca he was heading the group for molecular profiling within the department of
Molecular toxicology for preclinical and clinical problem solving. He has been a member of several
international consortia focusing on biomarker discovery and qualification.
Email: johan.lindberg@swetox.se
Prof. SiJin Liu is a Professor of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. He finished his postdoctoral training in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health
Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Children’s Hospital Boston,
Harvard Medical School from 2004 to 2008. He served as a research instructor at Tufts University
School of Medicine from 2008 to 2009. His research is mainly focused on Environmental medicine
and environmental toxicology.
Email: sjliu@rcees.ac.cn
Prof. Weiping Liu is Dean of College of Environmental & Resource Sciences of Zhejiang University.
My research has been focusing on enantioselectivity of environmental behavior and eco-safety of
chiral contaminants (POPs and Pesticides) from laboratory to field scale.
Email: wliu@zju.edu.cn
Dr. Birgit Paulsson has worked as a researcher in Environmental Chemistry, with focus on risk
assessment of human exposure to reactive chemicals. Currently she is a lecturer and director of studies
at the Dept. of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, at Stockholm University.
Email: birgit.paulsson@aces.su.se
Prof. Yanling Qiu is a Professor in Environmental Science, Tongji University. Her research area is
currently focused on exposure analysis, behavior mechanisms and risk assessment of chemical
contaminants in the environment.
Email: ylqiu@tongji.edu.cn
Ms. Qianfen Xiao is Assistant Researcher in Environmental Chemistry, and office director of the Key
Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment at Tongji University. Her research mainly focuses on
environmental organic contaminations analysis.
Email: qfxiao@tongji.edu.cn
Prof. Bing Yan is a full professor in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong
University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1990 from Columbia University. He finished his
postdoctoral training in physiology at University of Cambridge. He is interested in systematic
investigation of the biological activity of nanoparticles and exploration of methods to modulate nanobio interactions.
Email: Drbingyan@yahoo.com
Prof. Aiqian Zhang is professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Her research is mainly focused on Quantitative structure-activity relationships
and in silico target pre-screening, such as Receptor conformation adaptation for EDCs.
Email: aqzhang@rcees.ac.cn
Prof. Bin Zhao is a Professor of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. He finished his postdoctoral training in University of California, Davis. His
research is mainly focused on Molecular Toxicology, such as dioxins interaction with the Ah Receptor
Pathway, Recombinant cell bioassay systems for the detection and relative quantitation of halogenated
dioxins and related chemicals.
Email: binzhao@rcees.ac.cn
Prof. Jianfu Zhao is Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Environmental Studies of Tongji
University. He has worked on the theory and technology on water pollution control and environmental
sustainable development.
Email: zhaojianfu@tongji.edu.cn
Prof. Qingshun Zhao is a full professor in Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University. He
received his Ph.D. degree in 2001 from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA). His Ph.D.
dissertation was carried out in Dr. Paul Collodi’s Lab. His research interests focus on investigating the
molecular mechanisms underlying vertebrate early development.
Email: qingshun@nju.edu.cn
Prof. Zhiliang Zhu is a full professor of Tongji University specializing in environmental chemistry,
water treatment theory and technology. His research area focus on: adsorption process and mechanism
of inorganic arsenic and emerging organic pollutants from water on novel functional materials
including layered double hydroxide, composite metal oxides, nanomaterials and molecular imprinting
polymers; control and health risk assessment of traditional and emerging disinfection by-products in
drinking water.
Email: zzl@tongji.edu.cn