ICCVAM Elects Co-chairs

At its January 24 meeting, ICCVAM elected Anna Lowit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Emily Reinke, Department of Defense, to serve two-year terms as co-chairs of ICCVAM.

• Lowit is a senior science advisor in the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. She has been a member of ICCVAM since 2011 and has served as an ICCVAM co-chair since 2013.
• Reinke is a biologist at the U.S. Army Institute of Public Health and has been an ICCVAM member since 2015. As co-chair of ICCVAM, Reinke succeeds Abigail Jacobs, who served as an ICCVAM co-chair from 2013 until her retirement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in September 2017.