Dr. Jeffrey Laskin Understands Urgency to Develop Chemical Warfare Antidotes

Dr. Jeffrey Laskin Understands Urgency to Develop Chemical Warfare Antidotes

July 11, 2017 research highlights 0

Currently, Dr. Jeffrey Laskin, director of the Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence, leads a team conducting research on the exposure and health effects of chemical warfare agents used by terrorists. The researchers are determined to develop medical countermeasures.

Specifically, Laskin, a distinguished professor and chief of the toxicology division at the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, said their research focuses on countermeasures that would help people who have come in contact with sulfur mustard, also known as mustard gas.

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