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AGHES would like to congratulate Dr. William Slikker, the FDA’s long time head of our National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), for his upcoming retirement in March of this year at the close of NCTR’s 50th year anniversary celebration.
His 16 years as Director of NCTR were just the capstone of a long and distinguished career at the Center, which began 44 years ago when he joined the FDA as a postdoctoral fellow. Since then, he has demonstrated a wide range of groundbreaking scientific leadership in his field of neurotoxicology.
He has helped build and cement NCTR’s global scientific leadership, advancing a model of successful partnership that is especially critical in the field of public health. The work of NCTR under his leadership has epitomized how the FDA uses the best available science and the most rigorous data to shape, inform, and support our mission to advance patient and consumer health and safety.
Under his leadership, NCTR engaged in a broad range of cutting-edge research, from nanotechnology, to work on often understudied maternal, perinatal, and pediatric populations, to precision medicine and genomic technology, and support for the FDA’s responses to public health emergencies, including, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. NCTR researchers facilitate, support, and advance modern scientific techniques, develop new and alternative approaches to safety assessment, grow and explore new scientific worlds, and provide new energy to human-translational research and regulatory science.
Dr. Slikker has helped ensure that NCTR, like the FDA as a whole, remains forward looking and stays ahead of scientific and technological advances, so that we have the capabilities to take on the challenges of the future and continue to make a difference for patients and consumers.
We hope that Bill will remain engaged in the work he has spent a lifetime doing, and thank him for his service and commitment to science and public health.
Association of Government Health & Environmental Scientists