James P. Kehrer received a bachelor of science in pharmacy from Purdue University in 1974 and a PhD in pharmacology/toxicology from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1978. He did postdoctoral work from 1978- 1980 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 1980, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1991-2004 he was head of the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the College of Pharmacy and from 2004-2005 he was director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Toxicology. In 2005 he became the dean of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (CPPS) at Washington State University, and from 2009 to 2016 he was dean of the faculty of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Alberta. Dr. Kehrer served on numerous NIH grant review panels, as a member of the US-EPA Science Advisory Board Exposure and Human Health Committee, and on the US-FDA Nonprescription Drug Advisory Committee. He served as editor-in-chief of the international journal Toxicology Letters for 21 years. His research was in the areas of free radicals, oxidative stress, cell signaling and apoptosis. He received the Achievement Award from the Society of Toxicology, a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He has published 150 papers and two books.