Pamela (Pam) Lein earned a B.S. in Biology from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, a M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN, and a Ph.D
in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, NY. She completed postdoctoral training in Molecular Immunology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. Currently, Dr. Lein is Professor of Neurotoxicology and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biosciences in the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) School of Veterinary Medicine, and she holds a faculty appointment in the UC Davis MIND Institute.
Her research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which environmental stressors contribute to the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Lein has been continuously funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health for over 30 years, and she has >275 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.
She is actively engaged in teaching and mentoring veterinary, graduate and undergraduate students in neuropharmacology and neurotoxicology. Her service activities include Director of the Career Development Program in the NIEHS-funded Environmental Health Sciences Center at UC Davis, Director and PI of the NIH-funded UC Davis CounterACT Center of Excellence, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal NeuroToxicology.
