Frank von Hippel

Education: 

• Ph.D., Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
• A.B., Biology, with honors, Dartmouth College, Hanover, 1989

Dr. von Hippel's interests are to conduct research at the nexus of ecotoxicology, mechanisms of toxicity, and health disparities. He uses locally occurring wildlife and laboratory animals as models for human exposure and disease. While being especially interested in health disparities experienced by vulnerable populations and employing a Community Based Participatory Research approach. Examples of his current projects include: investigations of endocrine disruption and disease in Yupik people due to exposure to persistent organic pollutants originating from Cold War military installations in the Arctic, neurological effects and endocrine disruption in the Australian Anindilyakwa people due to manganese exposure originating from the world’s largest manganese mine on Groote Island, and health effects associated with agrochemical and perchlorate exposure in migrant Mexican farmworkers on the U.S. border. His team has integrated a variety of approaches to establish routes of exposure and mechanisms of developmental disruption ranging from the genome to the whole organism and its environment. 

Environmental research interests -