Principal Investigator
National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
NIH
USA
Biography
Dr. Mason received his B.A. (cum laude) from the University of California at Riverside and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a research chemist at Veterans Administration Hospital and an assistant professor at University of Minnesota. He has joined NIEHS since 1978. He has also been an adjunct professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and adjunct associate professor at Duke University. He has won Southern Chemist Award (Southeast ACS Region, 1994), International EPR/ESR Societyââ¬â¢s Gold Metal (2011) and Silver Metal for Biology & Medicine (1996), Lawrence H. Piette Memorial Lecturer (2002), Special Award from Elsevier for publishing most articles in FRBM (2000-2004), NIEHS Scientist of the Year Award (2006) and Mentor of the Year Award (2008), Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Free Radical in Biology & Medicine (2007), and Bruker Award by Royal Society of Chemistry, ESR Spectroscopy Group (2010).
Research Interest
His research interests include Electron Spin Resonance, Free Radical Biology, Biochemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Free Radicals, Glutathione, Spin Trapping, Oxidative Stress, Superoxide Dismutase, Enzymology, Spectroscopy, Catalase, Nitric Oxide, Reactive Oxygen Species.
