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Overview

Alan R. Boobis is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the subfields of health, toxicology and mutagenesis, public health, environmental and occupational health, cancer research, small animals, and analytical chemistry.

The scientist has worked on a variety of topics, including:

  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Consumer attitudes and food labeling
  • Carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment
  • Animal testing and alternatives
  • Dye analysis and toxicity
  • Computational drug discovery methods
  • Agricultural safety and regulations

Alan R. Boobis has published extensively in several key journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Toxicology Letters
  • Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  • Archives of Toxicology
  • Critical Reviews in Toxicology
  • Food and Chemical Toxicology

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, most notably:

  • Helmut Greim
  • Colin Berry
  • Daniel R. Dietrich
  • Jan G. Hengstler
  • Frank A. Barile

Recent publications by Alan R. Boobis include:

  • "Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Toxicity and Human Health Review: Current State of Knowledge and Strategies for Informing Future Research," 2020, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • "An evaluation framework for new approach methodologies (NAMs) for human health safety assessment," 2020, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  • "Recommendations for the conduct of systematic reviews in toxicology and environmental health research (COSTER)," 2020, Environment International
  • "New ideas for non-animal approaches to predict repeated-dose systemic toxicity: Report from an EPAA Blue Sky Workshop," 2020, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  • "Impacts of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict on the Global Food Supply Chain and Building Future Resilience," 2023, EuroChoices

Best Publications

  • Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Toxicity and Human Health Review: Current State of Knowledge and Strategies for Informing Future Research.

    Suzanne E. Fenton;Alan Ducatman;Alan Boobis;Jamie C. DeWitt

  • Methods of in vitro toxicology.

    G Eisenbrand;B Pool-Zobel;V Baker;M Balls

  • Alternative (non-animal) methods for cosmetics testing: current status and future prospects—2010

    Sarah Adler;David Basketter;Stuart Creton;Olavi Pelkonen

  • Managing the challenge of chemically reactive metabolites in drug development

    B. Kevin Park;Alan Boobis;Stephen Clarke;Chris E P Goldring

  • Cytochrome P450 expression in human hepatocytes and hepatoma cell lines: molecular mechanisms that determine lower expression in cultured cells.

    C. Rodríguez-Antona;M. T. Donato;A. Boobis;R. J. Edwards

  • Scaling factors for the extrapolation of in vivo metabolic drug clearance from in vitro data: reaching a consensus on values of human microsomal protein and hepatocellularity per gram of liver.

    Zoe E Barter;Martin K Bayliss;Philip H Beaune;Alan R Boobis

  • Risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals: A WHO/IPCS framework.

    M E Bette Meek;Alan R Boobis;Kevin M Crofton;Gerhard Heinemeyer

  • Systems toxicology: from basic research to risk assessment.

    Shana J. Sturla;Alan R. Boobis;Rex E. FitzGerald;Julia Hoeng

  • Mechanisms of cell death

    Alan R. Boobis;Duncan J. Fawthrop;Donald S. Davies

  • A form of cytochrome P450 in man, orthologous to form d in the rat, catalyses the O-deethylation of phenacetin and is inducible by cigarette smoking.

    D Sesardic;AR Boobis;RJ Edwards;DS Davies

  • Towards microbial fermentation metabolites as markers for health benefits of prebiotics

    Kristin A. Verbeke;Alan R. Boobis;Alessandro Chiodini;Christine A. Edwards

  • Meta-analysis of Studies of Alcohol and Breast Cancer with Consideration of the Methodological Issues

    Jane Key;Susan Hodgson;Rumana Z. Omar;Tina K. Jensen

  • Furafylline is a potent and selective inhibitor of cytochrome P450IA2 in man.

    D Sesardic;AR Boobis;BP Murray;S Murray

  • Comparative analysis of CYP3A expression in human liver suggests only a minor role for CYP3A5 in drug metabolism.

    Anna Westlind-Johnsson;Sarah Malmebo;Anna Johansson;Charlotta Otter

  • Hepatic metabolism of diclofenac: role of human CYP in the minor oxidative pathways

    Roque Bort;Katherine Macé;Alan Boobis;Marı́a-José Gómez-Lechón

  • Mode of Action in Relevance of Rodent Liver Tumors to Human Cancer Risk

    Michael P. Holsapple;Henri C. Pitot;Samuel Monroe Cohen;Alan R. Boobis

  • Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (swine)

    Olivier Andreoletti;Herbert Budka;Sava Buncic;John D Collins

  • Scientific Opinion on Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Food

    Jan Alexander;Diane Benford;Alan Boobis;Åke Bergman

  • Expression of xenobiotic-metabolizing cytochrome P450 Forms in human full-term placenta

    Jukka Hakkola;Markku Pasanen;Janne Hukkanen;Olavi Pelkonen

  • Polymorphisms in the cytochrome P450 CYP1A2 gene (CYP1A2) in colorectal cancer patients and controls: allele frequencies, linkage disequilibrium and influence on caffeine metabolism.

    Christoph Sachse;Upinder Bhambra;Gillian Smith;Tracy J. Lightfoot

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald S. Davies
Donald S. Davies Imperial College London
Olavi Pelkonen
Olavi Pelkonen University of Oulu
Daniel W. Nebert
Daniel W. Nebert University of Cincinnati
Nico P. E. Vermeulen
Nico P. E. Vermeulen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jan G. Hengstler
Jan G. Hengstler TU Dortmund University
José L. Domingo
José L. Domingo Rovira i Virgili University
Mark T. D. Cronin
Mark T. D. Cronin Liverpool John Moores University
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson National Institutes of Health
Brian G. Lake
Brian G. Lake University of Surrey
Samuel Monroe Cohen
Samuel Monroe Cohen University of Nebraska Medical Center

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