Professor Richard Bull

Richard Bull is presently employed one-half time as a Professor of Environmental Sciences at Washington State University (Tri-Cities Campus) and also works as a consultant in toxicology through a sole proprietorship company (MoBull Consulting). Dr. Bull has specialized in the toxicology of and risk assessment for chemicals commonly found in drinking water. He was employed by the Environmental Protection Agency in the period 1971-1984. His last position was as Director of the Toxicology and Microbiology Division of the Health Effects Research Laboratory in Cincinnati where he managed the Health Effects Research Programs under the Safe Drinking Water Act and under the Clean Water Act for the Agency. Personal research interests were in the effects of lead on brain development and the mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of disinfection by-products . In 1984 he accepted a position with Washington State University where he taught pharmacology and toxicology. His research in the toxicology and carcinogenicity of chemicals that were contaminants or additives to drinking water continued. The National Institute of environmental Health, the United States Air Force, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the American Water Works Association, and the National Water Research Institute supported his research . The research focused largely upon the haloacetic acid by-products of chlorination and metabolites of trichloroethylene. In 1994, Dr. Bull accepted an appointment as Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (managed by Battelle) where he remained until May of 2000. His research continued to be supported by the institutions identified above, plus projects that were funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program SER DP) of the Department of Defense. This support focused largely upon the carcinogenic activity of trichloroethylene and other chlorinated solvents. He also was instrumental in bringing projects utilizing cDNA arrays to study the changes in gene expression that occur after exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds (funded by the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of Japan) and a subcontract with Battelle on a support contract for the National Center for Environmental Assessment of the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency. These projects have expired. His activities at Washington State University are supported by a grant from the Department of Energy's Low Dose and Low Dose Rate Radiation Effects Program. Through MoBull, a contract with the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AwwaRF ) is in the final stages of negotiation and should begin in Jan, 2003 ). Dr. Bull‘s consulting involves a series of small consulting agreements.