Anil Chuturgoon

Prof. Anil Chuturgoon is a medical biochemist with a PhD in toxicology and epigenetics. He is a professor and head of medical biochemistry and is currently the dean of research at the College of Health Sciences. He is a B-rated medical scietist by the National Research Foundation of South Africa; he has published over 200 research papers and 12 chapters in books, and he has edited two books and many conference proceedings.

He actively researches epigenetic phenomena in toxicology and its implications in human diseases. He is a world expert on mycotoxins and their biological toxicity in humans. He pioneered research on fusariotoxins and epigenetics and their implication in disease. His contribution to Toxicology has been recognised by the CTD curator (NIEHS, USA), where 8 of his manuscripts are included in this database; the database provides manually curated information about chemical–gene/protein interactions, chemical–disease and gene-disease relationships. He has successfully supervised and graduated over 150 Masters and 50 PhD students. He serves as editor of several journals, including Nature: Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Reproductive Health. Read More Read Less