MANAGEMENT TEAM

Thomas Horn, PhD, DABT | Assistant Vice President and Manager of Toxicology Division

Thomas L. Horn, PhD, DABT, is the Assistant Vice President and Manager of  the Toxicology Division of IITRI.  Dr. Horn received his BS in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his PhD in Toxicology from the University of Minnesota.  A board-certified toxicologist since 2005, Dr. Horn’s primary research activities are in the areas of preclinical toxicology of small molecules and vaccines or other biologics.

Dr. Horn joined the IITRI staff in 2001 and has served as a Study Director for government (NCI, NIAID, NCATS, NTP/NIEHS, and DoD) and commercial sponsors on several hundred acute, subchronic, carcinogenicity, and reproductive studies involving rodents and rabbits, all utilizing multiple routes of compound administration.  Dr. Horn previously served as co-Principal Investigator and Study Director on a large NIAID contract entitled “In vitro Animal Models for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biodefense” that focused on the conduct of a series of GLP-compliant vaccine safety studies in in mice, rats, and rabbits to treat or prevent various infectious disease indications.  He also served as IITRI Study Director for toxicology and carcinogenicity studies of cell phone radiofrequency fields performed for the NTP/NIEHS.  He is currently serving as Principal Investigator on other NIH toxicology contracts.

Dr. Horn is a member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and is a member of various IITRI committees including IACUC (alternate chair), Radiation Safety, and Biological Safety.