ICCS Scientific Advisory Committee

Alison Harrill, Ph.D., is Associate Director for Toxicology for the Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure at the US EPA where she leads development and regulatory implementation of novel methods for toxicology and safety assessment. Dr. Harrill is a co-lead of the EPA’s New Approach Work Plan Implementation Team and represents the Agency to cross-federal and international partnerships, including ICCVAM (Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods), the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), and APCRA (Accelerating the Pace of Chemical Risk Assessment), where she works to set standards for building confidence in new approaches for chemical safety testing. Dr. Harrill is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has several years’ experience as assistant professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and then as research team lead at the National Toxicology Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has served in numerous volunteer positions, including on Council at the Society of Toxicology and as Deputy Editor of the journal Toxicological Sciences. During the pandemic, she was detailed as Data & Analytics Team Lead for the Healthcare Resilience Working Group of the Federal Coronavirus Task Force. Awards for her work to understand genetic drivers of inter-individual host susceptibility to drugs and chemicals toward precision medicine approaches include the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Innovation in Regulatory Science Award, the Best Paper Published in Toxicological Sciences, and the Best Paper Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment.