Andy Ewens

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About Andy Ewens

Expert witness in toxicology, interpreting alleged drug use, drug-induced impairment, drug-induced death, providing additional drug testing, and conducting forensic toxicology research. Working on legal cases of murder/assault, cause of death, DUI, post-conviction hearings, personal injury, child custody, employment drug testing, and medical malpractice. Helped develop a curative treatment (doxorubicin and IL-2) for breast cancer and lymphoma in mice with no adverse effects and a serum based biomarker for response to treatment. A phase II clinical trial was initiated, but after two patients were treated, was put on hold for non-scientific reasons. Twenty one years of experience in the biomedical field, 10 in research, 11 in government contract work as a desk scientist. Research projects included developing curative chemoimmunotherapy for cancer in rodents, development of novel technique for detecting chromosomal aberrations, structure activity relationship analysis of taxane based drug efflux pump inhibitors, helped to develop novel technique for determining prognosis after sex mismatch bone marrow transplantation, Ran protein activation, bacterial glpR tetramerization mapping, Desk science work included, toxicology expert for JustAnswer and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call center, update carcinogenicity related sections of the Report on Carcinogens for the National Toxicology Program/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, recommending chemicals for carcinogenicity testing for the National Cancer Institute, managing the collection and analysis of data for the development of a quantitative structure toxicity relationship computer program for the Environmental Protection Agency, and edited toxicity sections of drug records in the Hazardous Substance Data Bank for the National Library of Medicine. Outside of work, I performed a quantitative risk assessment of eating animals that ate feed adulterated with melamine and cyanuric acid from Chinese protein products. I submitted my report to the World Health Organization. Hazmat Technician (non-responder) and first responder for mass casualty events through the Cary North Carolina Community Emergency Response Team. Teach Hazmat and Terrorism to the public and fellow first responders. Specialties: Toxicology, pharmacology, oncology, immunology, weapons of mass destruction