Member Profile
Logeswari ponnusamy Ponnusamy
Country of origin: India Currently in: United States, Waukegan General field of specialization: Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences-
Degrees
2009 Undergraduate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences2012 Master Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences2017 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences -
Current Research Activities
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Principal Scientist - Regulatory Toxicology August 2017-present Metabolism and Safety Zoetis, MI, USA Integration of toxicology, human food safety, target animal safety, user safety and environmental assessments into submission documents Toxicological assessments for residual solvents, excipients, impurities in the manufacturing process Serving as study director/ sponsor representative for GLP and non-GLP studies Writing safety expert reports for registration renewals Medical assessments supporting pharmacovigilance and product quality User safety support for project teams (writes the documents, assembles various scenario calculations and risk mitigation proposals, packaging choices, label language) Response to regulatory queries (global) Environmental risk assessments including project strategy, document preparation, contracting and monitoring studieCurrent profession
Current professional activities type:ResearchIndustryHigher Education StudyProfessional Societies Graduate Student Representative, Carcinogenesis Specialty Section, SOT 2016 - 2017 Graduate Student Representative, Comparative and Veterinary Specialty Section, SOT 2016 - 2017 Career Resource and Development (CRAD) Student Representative, SOT 2016 – 2017 Graduate Student Leadership Committee: Professional Development Sub-committee, SOT 2016 - 2017 Co-leader, Communications committee, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2015-2016 Vice Graduate Student Representative, Carcinogenesis Specialty Section, SOT 2015 - 2016 Member, K-12 Outreach Committee, Lone Star chapter of SOT, Texas 2014 - Present PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Society of Toxicology (SOT) 2013 - Present Society of Toxicology-Indian Chapter (STOX) 2010 - Present European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTV) 2014 – Present American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2014 - Present American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014 - Present PROFESSIONAL SERVICE INVOLVEMENT Course developer/Reviewer/Content writer Course development for Introduction to Toxicology, Professional Education Testing and Certification Organization International (PEOI), 2016 - Present Adhoc Reviewer, Open Veterinary Journal, 2016 – Present Adhoc reviewer, Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2017– Present Adhoc reviewer, Environmental Toxicology And Pharmacology, 2017 – Present Invited Talk on “Women in Science” Women Graduates-USA Annual Meeting, MD, 2015 Invited Talk (Webinar) on “Increasing Women in STEM”, Graduate Women International (GWI), 2016 Technical Advice/ Expertise in Toxicology, HIV/AIDS policy project reports, UNDP Democratic Republic of Congo and United Nations Organization, 2015 - 2016 Invited opinions (SOT-Carcinogenesis Specialty Section) Ponnusamy L, Gadhia S. Invited opinion: Emergence of novel techniques, assays, and tools in carcinogenesis research. SOT- Carcinogenesis Specialty Section (CSS) Newsletter. Summer 2016 Ponnusamy L, Dunnick K. Invited opinion. Intestinal microbiota in carcinogenesis. SOT-CSS newsletter. Summer 2017 STEM Mentor/ Instructor (National and University level) Peer Mentor - Undergraduate Education Program, SOT Committee on Diversity Initiatives (CDI), 2015 SOT-Committee on Diversity Initiatives (CDI) Representative for Texas Tech University, Director and Host meeting on Academic Toxicology program, SOT annual meeting 2016 and 2017 Graduate Student Mentor, Undergraduate summer research, NIH funded “The Plains Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program”, TTU, 2015 Presenter, Research Carnival- Inspiring high school students to scientific research, TTU, 2014 - 2016 Science Outreach Instructor, Instructor/ Mentor, Science Summer Camps on Toxicology, 2014-2017 Conference Reviewer/ Volunteer and Judge (Regional and Local) Graduate Research Poster competition, TTU, 2016 Annual Under Graduate Research Conference, TTU, 2014 - 2015 Regional South Plains Science and Engineering fair and local schools’ science fair, 2013 - 2016
Affiliations
Society of Toxicology -
Other Awards
Dec 2014Daphne Purves International grant 2015Awarded by Graduate Women International, SwitzerlandMay 2014Alex Lemonade Stand Pediatric Oncology Student Training grantFunded by Alex Lemonade Stand Foundation, USAJul 2015100 Inspiring Women in STEM awardawarded by INSIGHT into Diversity magazine, USASep 2014Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellwshipby Helen DeVitt Jones Foundation, Texas Tech University, USA