Stanley Aniagu

Dr. Aniagu works as a Toxicologist in the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Research Division. Dr. Aniagu helps with the derivation of toxicity factors such as Effects Screening Levels (ESLs) in addition to conducting the review of air permit applications in accordance with Agency guidance and protocols. He also helps to conduct advanced toxicological evaluations and risk assessments to determine potential health risks associated with exposure to environmental contaminants, including health effects reviews of ambient air monitoring data. A major part of his work also involves reviewing and coordinating risk assessments for criteria air pollutants (i.e. NAAQS).

Prior Experience and Education

Dr. Stanley Aniagu holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He also obtained a Master of Science degree in Toxicology as well as a Ph.D. in Environmental & Molecular Toxicology from the University of Birmingham, England. His graduate research focused mainly on non-genotoxic carcinogenesis by environmental chemicals, especially with respect to brominated flame retardants and estrogenic chemicals, which are implicated in cancer, but which also do not cause direct damage to the DNA material.

Dr. Aniagu is a registered Pharmacist with the Boards of Pharmacy in both Texas and Tennessee and regularly participates in the Texas Toxic Substances Coordinating Committee meetings being hosted quarterly at the State Department of Health and Human Services, Austin, TX. In addition, he is a current member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT), the SOT Lone Star Regional Chapter, as well as the SOT Risk Assessment, Carcinogenesis, Inhalation and Occupation and Public Health Specialty Sections. He has over 20 years of combined experience in mechanistic and regulatory toxicology as well as healthcare research and clinical practice.