About the Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development

Maureen Gwinn, Ph.D., DABT

Dr. Maureen Gwinn currently serves as the Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA).  In this role, specific duties include providing direction to ORD on overall program goals, objectives, policies, strategies, technical and scientific approaches, and program plans, based on a recognized scientific expertise. She also chairs the Agency Science Technology and Policy Council and oversees the Agency’s scientific integrity program. Dr. Gwinn has held multiple leadership roles within ORD including Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Chief Scientist, National Program Director for ORD’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities (SHC) National Research Program, Director of the Biomolecular and Computational Toxicology Division within ORD’s Center for Computational Toxicology Exposure, Senior Science Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science and Associate National Program Director for Community Public Health in SHC. Dr. Gwinn joined the US EPA in ORD’s National Center for Environmental Assessment, where she worked on human health hazard assessments for the Integrated Risk Information System program.

Dr. Gwinn earned her BS degree in Biology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and her MS and PhD in Oral Biology at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York.  She became a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology in 2007 and was nominated to the Academy of Toxicological Sciences in 2014.