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Dr. John Phillips Gibson ('53, '59)
1997 College of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Fellow
John Phillips Gibson is a
veterinary pathologists and toxicologist.
He earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture from K-State in 1953.
After serving two years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army artillery in Korea, he earned a
master's degree and a doctor of veterinary medicine degree in 1959, both from K-State. In
1964 he earned a Ph.D. in veterinary pathology from The Ohio State University. He is also
certified as a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists and of the
American Board of Toxicology.
After completing his studies Gibson accepted a position as
toxicology section head and supervisor of the Laboratory Animal Facilities, and later as
department head of Pathology and Toxicology for the Merrell Dow Research Institute in
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1990 he became senior director of Drug Safety Assessment and
Distinguished Scientist for Marion Merrell Dow Inc. During most of this period he also
held positions as adjunct associate professor of Laboratory Animal Medicine and adjunct
assistant professor of pathology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
After retiring from Marion Merrell Dow in 1994 he has been consulting in drug safety
assessment.
Gibson has served on the executive board of the Society of
Toxicologic Pathologists, and was elected president of this international society of
pathologists in 1992. He served on the editorial board of "Toxicologic
Pathology" from 1984-95, and "Fundamental and Applied Toxicology" from
1982-84. He has also served on several committees of the American College of Veterinary
Pathologists and the Society of Toxicology and has been an active member of the Teratology
Society, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and the American Veterinary
Medical Association.
During his career in veterinary pathology he has written or
co-written 70 publications in toxicology, teratology, pathology and laboratory animal
medicine. He was responsible for the pre-clinical safety testing of human pharmaceuticals
and for reporting and presenting these findings to regulatory agencies around the world,
including the FDA. His present consulting activities consist of bridging the gap between
animal toxicology findings and human clinical drug problems. He is also serving on an
institutional review board which approves protocols for human clinical trials to assure
safety and full disclosure to patients, and is on the advisory board of the Cincinnati
Regional Drug and Poison Information Center. He received a Distinguished Alumni Award from
The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1995. |