Emily Noonan Place, PhD, MPH
Biography
Emily Noonan Place, PHD, MPH is a regulatory consultant in the field of pharmacology/toxicology and biostatistics. She is currently working as a Senior Consultant at Aclairo Consulting Firm based out of Virginia, her expertise is in oncology products, immune activating products, rare diseases, testing in non-human primates and oligonucleotide therapeutics. She worked for almost a decade as a toxicology reviewer in the Oncology Center of Excellence at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation Research, Office of New Drugs. She is a scientist by training, and has a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Connecticut and MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley (2012). She completed postdoctoral fellowships at UCSF, Stanford University School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. She has been teaching at the University level since 2002 and remotely since 2008, general nutrition, general biology, advanced biochemistry, anthropology, anatomy and physiology, and introduction to public health. She has been teaching in the OOMPH program since 2014.
Her current research interests are in Bayesian models of toxicity and prediction of drug activity.
She has a 12 year old son and three dogs; a border collie/corgi mix, an English Shephard, a golden retriever along with a lot of other animals. In her spare time she loves being outside, playing soccer, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and runs a non-profit organization for the rehabilitation of orphaned and injured wildlife. Emily is a certified wildlife rehabilitator in New York State.
Education
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MPH – Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley, 2012 -
PhD – Cell Biology
University of Connecticut, 2006 -
BS – Biology
State University of New York at Binghamton, 2001
Publications
Courses Taught
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- Spring/Fall | OOMPH PBHLTH PHW 142
- Introduction to Biostatistics
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