As an Immunotoxicologist at Cornell University, I focus on the health effects of exposure to environmental chemicals and drugs in early life. I particularly focus on how prenatal environmental exposure impacts the ability to get certain diseases later in life. The work impacts both our knowledge of the risk factors for human disease as well as influences how drug and chemical safety testing will be approached in the future.
However, my decades' long interest in antiques and particularly in the Scottish goldsmiths and their wares has led to recent books and scholarly articles in the total more...