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Toxicological Sciences 63, 3-5 (2001)
Copyright © 2001 by the Society of Toxicology

PROFILES IN TOXICOLOGY

The Early Days of SOT

Robert A. Scala,1

12500 East Cape Horn Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85749

In 1958 I was finishing up a Ph.D. program in Physiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. My thesis research was on structure-activity relationships of certain riboflavin analogs, although at that time we didn't call it that. Like any other "about-to-graduate" biomedical scientist, I went to the federation meeting in Atlantic City that spring to give my first paper and to search for a job. In a casual conversation with another U of R graduate student I mentioned that what I'd like to do more than anything else was study the effect of changes in chemical structure on biological activity. He responded that he knew someone who was looking for an individual to do just that. He sent me to Harold Hodge, then Chairman of Pharmacology at the U of R. Harold made a phone call; I had a job interview, followed by an offer, followed by a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Early Days

A Period of Growth

The Society Changes

Today

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