Organizing Committee

Fenna Sillé, PhD

Fenna Sillé is an Assistant Professor at JHU and Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. There she leads the exposome program and studies how environmental exposures change the immune system.

Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD

Thomas Hartung steers the revolution in toxicology to move away from 50+ year-old animal tests to organoid cultures and the use of artificial intelligence.

Gary Miller, PhD

Gary Miller is a leader in the field of exposomics, which studies the comprehensive and cumulative effects of physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial mediators that impact biological systems.

David Balshaw, PhD

David Balshaw is the Director of the Division of Extramural Research and Training. Over nearly two decades he has led several high impact programs at NIEHS and NIH particularly in the areas of ‘omics technologies and is an international leader in the field of exposomics.

Nicole Kleinstreuer, PhD

Nicole Kleinstreuer, began her role as Director of the NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) in 2020.

Danilo Tagle, PhD

Dan Tagle is the director of NCATS’ Office of Special Initiatives. He also recently served as the Center’s acting deputy director, as well as the acting director of NCATS’ Office of Grants Management and Scientific Review, now the Division of Extramural Activities.

Rima Habre, ScD, MSc

Rima Habre is an Associate Professor in Environmental Health and Spatial Sciences at USC, jointly appointed in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, and the Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute.

Chirag Patel, PhD

Chirag Patel’s group aims to dissect inter-individual differences in human phenomes through strategies that integrate data sources that capture the comprehensive clinical experience , the complex phenomena of environmental exposure, and inherited genomic variation.

Srikanth Nadadur, PhD

Srikanth (Sri) Nadadur, is the branch chief for the Exposure, Response, and Technology Branch (ERTB). He joined the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training in 2007.

Sophie Thuault-Restituito, PhD

Sophie Thuault-Restituito, serves as the Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at NEXUS: Network for Exposomics in the U.S, directly reporting to the funding Director, Gary Miller. In this capacity, Sophie works closely with Gary to establish and implement the Center’s strategic vision.

L. Michelle Bennett, PhD

L. Michelle Bennett is a certified Executive Coach and currently Principal and Owner of L.M. Bennett Consulting, LLC. She applies her 20-year career at the National Institutes of Health to helping teams and organizations across a wide range of sectors, both in the US and on the international arena.

Supporting Personnel

Camila Januario

Camila Januario is the Sr. Program Manager at the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternative to Animal Testing (CAAT).

Anwyn Statnick

Anwyn Statnick is the Sr. Special Events Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternative to Animal Testing (CAAT).

Eliza Cole

Eliza Cole is the Communications Specialist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternative to Animal Testing (CAAT).