Thomas Hartung is the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for evidence-based toxicology in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also holds a joint appointment for molecular microbiology and immunology at the Bloomberg School. He is adjunct affiliate professor at Georgetown University. In addition, he holds a joint appointment as a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at University of Konstanz, Germany. He also is the director of Centers for Alternatives to Animal Testing of both universities.
As private investigator, he headed the Human Toxome project funded as an NIH Transformative Research Grant and the series of annual Microphysiological Systems World Summits starting in 2022 by 60+ organizations. He is the founding field chief editor of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, which published 1000+ articles since 2018. He is the former head of the European Commission’s Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods, Ispra, Italy, and has authored more than 685 scientific publications with more than 50,000 citations (h-index 119). His toxicology classes on COURSERA had more than 20,000 active learners.