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Having had the privilege of mentoring students at all levels, I appreciate the value of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral student interaction with experienced scientists and with fellow students at SOT meetings to broaden their scientific training. To carry out this role of student enrichment, SOT desperately needs resources to support students at a time of shrinking scientific funding.

As SOT Treasurer and then as a member of the President chain, I witnessed the initiation and development of the SOT Endowment and the growth of those funds. After discussion, my wife Cristine and I want to promote the new campaign to expand the SOT Education Mission Fund to support activities such as funding graduate students to attend SOT. We are inspired and motivated to help initiate the new SOT Education Mission Fund campaign, as this fund is used to support education activities of SOT.

About Willliam Slikker Jr.

William Slikker Jr. earned his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of California Davis. He received postdoctoral training at the National Center for Toxicological Research and the Free University of Berlin. Dr. Slikker has authored or co-authored over 400 publications with topics including developmental neurotoxicology, pharmacokinetics, systems toxicology, emerging technologies, and risk assessment. Dr. Slikker has had the privilege to mentor a dozen PhD students and more than 20 Postdoctoral Fellows. He has cofounded three scientific societies including the International Conference on Neuroprotective Agents, the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society, and the Global Coalition for Regulatory Science Research. He served as Director of the National Center for Toxicological Research/US FDA for 16 years (recently retired) and as Past President of the Teratology Society, the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, and the Society of Toxicology.