Gisela Witz
Professor Emeritus
Toxicology
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
United States of America
Biography
Gisela Witz Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus, worked at Rutgers University and EOHSI in Toxicology.Her Research areas involves Benzene Toxicology; Chemical Aspects of Toxicity of Reactive Intermediates Including Reactive Oxygen Species; Mechanisms of Chemical Carcinogenesis. She won awards like Volunteer Faculty Award, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2004 and 2006 Honoree, Third Annual Women in Science Symposium entitled “Aging, Science, and Society”, November 3, 2000, at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, N.J.
Research Interest
Toxicology
Publications
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Weisel, CP, Park, S, Pyo, H, Mohan, K, Witz, G. Use of stable isotopically labeled benzene to evaluate environmental exposures. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 2003;13 (5):393-402. doi: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500285. PubMed PMID:12973367
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Weinberger, B, Anwar, M, Henien, S, Sosnovsky, A, Hiatt, M, Jochnowitz, N, Witz, G, Hegyi, T. Association of lipid peroxidation with antenatal betamethasone and oxygen radial disorders in preterm infants. Biol. Neonate. 2004;85 (2):121-7. doi: 10.1159/000074968. PubMed PMID:14631157
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Rivedal, E, Witz, G. Metabolites of benzene are potent inhibitors of gap-junction intercellular communication. Arch. Toxicol. 2005;79 (6):303-11. doi: 10.1007/s00204-004-0638-0. PubMed PMID:15690152
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Rivedal, E, Witz, G. Benzene metabolites block gap junction intercellular communication. Role in hematotoxicity and leukemia?. Chem. Biol. Interact. 2005;153-154 :257-60. doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2005.03.032. PubMed PMID:15935824
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Rivedal, E, Witz, G, Leithe, E. Gap junction intercellular communication and benzene toxicity. Chem. Biol. Interact. 2010;184 (1-2):229-32. doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2009.11.013. PubMed PMID:19932693
