>> I think there's two kinds of
people that could get into this field.
But, both require a technical background
and technical understanding of toxicology.
There's the potential to get
into the field as a researcher
and remain a researcher for
the duration of your career.
If you're doing that as an undergraduate person
who doesn't go on to get a graduate degree,
you are, most likely, going to do that working
in a laboratory, as I just said, for a professor
or a scientist, an industry or government.
If you go on to pursue additional
studies, as a graduate student, then,
the field becomes wide open because toxicology
is one of these areas that is very applied.
So, we have, for instance, statutes,
laws that govern how chemicals
are to be used and disposed of.
And, in the United States, for
instance, there are dozens of statutes
that require an understanding of this.
So, you can get into regulatory, the
regulatory aspects of toxicology,
the licensing of drugs or
the licensing of pesticides.
You also could get into the field and move
towards the science policy area which is
where I ended up in Washington DC.
And, this is where we have
this very necessary interface
between the actual experimental scientific
information that we've captured that needs
to be interpreted in a way in which
there are also policy implications
as to how these chemicals are
going to ultimately be regulated.
And, that was very interesting and a lot of fun.
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