Bruce Hammock

Dr. Bruce Hammock is an American entomologist, chemist and toxicologist. He is known for his research regarding improving pest control agents, monitoring and determining the human and environmental health effects of pesticides and in medicine work on the inflammation resolving branch of the arachidonate cascade leading to a drug candidate to treat pain and inflammatory disease. Additionally, he made many advances in U.S. agriculture which led to him receiving the Frasch and Spencer Awards of the ACS and the Alexander von Humboldt Award in Agriculture. His early work tested the basic hypothesis in both insects and mammals that regulation of chemical mediators could be as much by specific degradation as by biosynthesis. He exploited this fundamental knowledge both in agriculture and in human pharmacology.

In 1980, Hammock joined the University of California, Davis as an associate professor of Entomology and Environmental Toxicology. Since then, he has become a crucial part of campus by taking on roles such as being an active member of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, principal investigator of the Biotechnology Training grant for 15 years and the program director of the NIEHS UC Davis Superfund Basic Research Program for the past 35 years. Provided by Wikipedia