ASTM International’s environmental assessment, risk management, and corrective action committee (E50) has presented its 2024 Robert Brink Memorial Award to Mark S. Johnson.

The award was established in honor of Dr. Robert Brink, a founding member and leader in ASTM methods development on biological effects and environmental fate. A member of ASTM since 2008, Johnson was honored for his many contributions to the committee, and the award citation acknowledges a prolific career in toxicology that has produced over 130 publications, chapters, and reports.

Johnson recently retired from his position as the director of toxicology of the U.S. Defense Centers for Public Health, Defense Health Agency. He is now president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and also has memberships in the Society of Toxicology and on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, and the International Board of Environmental Risk Assessment.

Johnson earned his doctoral degree in veterinary toxicology from Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 1998.

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