Martin Ronis

Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans. Dr. Ronis received his B.A./M.A. in Natural Sciences (Pharmacology) from Cambridge University, England in 1982 and his Ph.D. (Physiology and Biochemistry) from Reading University, England in 1985. After postdoctoral fellowships in the Toxicology Program at North Carolina State University (1985-1987) and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden (1987-1989), Dr. Ronis joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1989 and become full Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology & Toxicology in 2002. Dr. Ronis research lies at the intersection of nutrition and toxicology. His early work focused on the regulation and comparative biochemistry of cytochrome P450 enzymes with a focus on the effects of persistent environmental pollutants and alcohol. Subsequently, he has worked on the role of nutrition in alcohol pathology in liver and bone; the endocrine and biological effects of soy products and phytoestrogens and the skeletal toxicity of polychlorinated biphenyls. He served as Associate Director for Basic Research at the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute from 2002-2015 when he moved to join LSUHSC. Dr. Ronis has been a member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) since 1989. He was president of the South Central Chapter (SCSOT) from 2006-2007 and 2015-2016. He is also a member of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), the International Society for the Study of the Biological Effects of Alcohol (ISBRA) and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). He has served as permanent member of NIH Study Sections including ALTX4, XNDA and Systemic Injury from Environmental Exposures (SIEE). He was an editorial board member for the journal Experimental Biology & Medicine (2002-2008) and of the World Journal of Hepatology (2009-2013). He is currently an Associate Editor of Drug Metabolism Reviews and is an Associate Editor for the Pharmacology Section of the online journal “Biology”. NIH has funded his research continuously since 1990 and he is currently PI on an R37 MERIT award from NIAAA. He is the author /co-author of over 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.