Editorial Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/toxicology.1.001
Letter from the Founding Editor, Masood A. Shammas
Masood A. Shammas1,*
- 1Lead Scientist, Environmental & Genomic Toxicology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Corresponding Author
Masood A. Shammas, masood_shammas@dfci.harvard.edu
Received Date: September 02, 2019
Accepted Date: September 12, 2019
Shammas MA. Letter from the Founding Editor, Masood A. Shammas. Arch Clin Toxicol 2019; 1(1):1-2.
Copyright: © 2019 Shammas MA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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