Dr. Suszkiw is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the University of Cincinnati Medical School, Cincinnati, OH. He received the Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and obtained postdoctoral training in receptor neurobiology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He conducted research in developmental neurobiology of cholinergic system at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, cholinergic synaptic neurochemistry at the Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany and electrophysiology of septo-hippocampal neurons at the Neurophysiology Laboratory, NINDS/NIH. More recently at the University of Cincinnati, he has been engaged in molecular, neurochemical, and behavioral studies of developmental neurotoxicity of inorganic lead exposure. His major current research focus is on the interactions between environmental neurotoxic agents and endogenous mechanisms, particularly the activation of microglial inflammatory response, in neuronal injury/dysfunction during neurodevelopment and in aging-related neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Suszkiw has served on a number of neurotoxicology-related review panels including the NIH Alcohol/Toxicology Study Section and is a member of the Editorial Board of NeuroToxicology.