Congratulations to SOT Member, and UGA Grad, Shuo Xiao of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on receiving the 2025 SOT Achievement Award.
This award recognizes an SOT member who has made significant contributions to toxicology within 15 years of obtaining the highest earned degree.
For his innovative and impactful research into how environmental chemicals and pharmaceuticals adversely impact women’s reproductive health and fertility and its implications for public health, Shuo Xiao, PhD, has received the 2025 SOT Achievement Award.
More About Dr. Xiao
After earning his PhD in Toxicology from the University of Georgia, Dr. Xiao began his academic career as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, exploring 3D in vitro ovarian tissue culture, ovary-on-a-chip, and the ovarian toxicity of cancer treatments. His originality and innovative research approaches have earned him a series of prestigious grants including an NIH K01, NIH P01, NIH UH3, and multiple NIH R01 grants along with grants from other federal and state agencies (e.g., DOD and NJDEP) and research foundations (e.g., Gates Foundation and HESI). Dr. Xiao’s extensive research portfolio has been undertaken as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina and now as a tenured Associate Professor at Rutgers University School of Pharmacy and a resident faculty at Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), where he has conducted his research since 2020.
Since Dr. Xiao began his faculty appointment, he bridged all his prior experience and expertise in reproductive biology, medicine, public health, toxicology, and microfluidics to establish his current independent programs, including female reproductive toxicology, organ-on-chip, and non-hormonal contraception. Dr. Xiao combined his research background in reproductive biology, toxicology, and microfluidics to engineer an ovary-on-a-chip and a whole female reproductive tract-on-a-chip, which hold enormous potential to enable studies on female reproductive biology and toxicology in a more complex and novel way. He continues to advance the complexity of these systems to include other organ systems such as liver and to simulate more complex processes of women’s reproductive and endocrine functions.
A member of SOT since 2010, Dr. Xiao is active in many SOT Specialty Sections and Special Interest Groups. He is currently the President of the American Association of Chinese in Toxicology Special Interest Group (AACT) and the Secretary/Treasurer of the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section (RDTSS), having also completed a term as Councilor for the same Specialty Section. In addition to his service, Dr. Xiao has also received the JOINN Biomere Outstanding Young Toxicologist Award from AACT along with the New-Career Scientist Award and the Best Reproductive Toxicology Paper in Toxicological Sciences, both from RDTSS.
Dr. Xiao has taken an active role in teaching and mentoring the next generation of toxicologists through the Rutgers Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology. As the primary teaching instructor and Director of the course titled “Principles of Toxicology,” he provides instruction in this and many other courses within the program, in addition to mentoring undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral associates, and visiting international scholars at Rutgers.
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