Dr. Helmut Zarbl is the Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health and Science Institute (EOHSI), as well as the Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice Department of the Rutgers School of Public Health.  In addition, he serves as the Director of the NIEHS sponsored Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease, and the Associate Director For Public Health Sciences at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.  Dr. Zarbl serves on numerous national research review and advisory panels, and editorial panels.  He is known for his work in areas of toxicogenomics, and mechanisms of and genetic susceptibility to chemical carcinogenesis, mechanisms of mutagenesis and toxicity, and technology development.  Dr. Zarbl’s research has focused largely on toxicogenomics and functional genomics, carcinogenesis, molecular and cellular biology, and toxicology.  Specifically, this has included work to understand the molecular mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis and the genetic basis for differential susceptibility to mammary carcinogenesis using animal and in vitro model systems, and then translating the findings to human breast cancer.