Dr. Peter S. Thorne is University of Iowa Distinguished Chair and Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. He is director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology and is assistant director of the NIH-funded Environmental Health Sciences Research Center. Thorne runs a productive research laboratory engaging his students in studies of PCB exposures and health effects, environmental risk factors for inflammatory lung diseases, bioaerosol-induced immunomodulation, the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials, and novel methods for exposure assessment and modeling. He is project investigator for the Iowa Superfund Research Program's Project 3.