Shana J. Sturla

The ETH Laboratory of Toxicology is concerned with the chemical basis of mutagenesis and toxicity.  Various projects at the interface of chemistry and biology aim to delineate relationships between chemical structures, enzyme-catalyzed chemical transformations, and cellular responses to environmental and dietary toxicants and cancer drugs.  Particular interests lie in factors influencing susceptibility to DNA-alkylating agents and food-relevant exposures.  Broad impacts of the knowledge and tools resulting from this work are intended to improve human health by impacting chemical risk assessment and disease prevention, as well as precision medicine strategies.

Shana J. Sturla is Professor of Toxicology in the ETH Department of Health Sciences and Technology (Full Professor since 2016, Associate Professor 2009-2016).  She was born in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.  She completed a B.S. in Chemistry in 1996 at the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in 2001 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  From 2001-2004, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, and from 2004-2009, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota.