Joseph R. Landolph, Jr.

  • Associate professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
  • Associate professor of Pathology
  • Keck School of Medicine of USC
  • Member, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Office: (323) 224-7781

Expertise Summary

Expert on cancers caused by chemical carcinogens in the workplace, and on environmental pollution, including heavy metals and toxic waste

Expertise

  • chemical carcinogenesis
  • chemically induced cancer
  • environmental carcinogens and their mechanisms of biological action
  • tobacco smoking and cancer
  • heavy metal (arsenic, nickel, chromium) carcinogenesis and toxicology
  • molecular biology of cancer
  • chemically induced mutation
  • chemically induced mutagenesis
  • molecular biology of chemical carcinogenesis
  • molecular biology of chemically induced neoplastic cell transformation
  • chemically induced toxicity
  • genetic toxicology
  • asbestos

Languages

  • German
  • French

Additional Information

  • Member, Carcinogen Identification Committee, Advising the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, 1993-present; Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants, Advising the California Air Resources Board, 2003-2010; Scientific Review Panel, Drinking Water Committee, Science and Technology Achievement Awards Committee and Human Health Research Review Committee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Perchloroethylene Risk Assessment Review Committee, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2006-2009
  • Private consultant in chemical toxicology and chemical carcinogenesis, 1985-present
  • Member (2006-present), Member of Board of Los Angeles Chapter, Vice President of Los Angeles Chapter (2011-present), and Member of Board of National Chapter (2011-present), Forensic Expert Witness Association