Bruce N. Ames Laboratory Personnel

The Bruce N. Ames Research Group is located at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, a part of the Children's Hospital and Research Center of Oakland. Dr. Ames' core research group is a part of a greater research group that concentrates research in Nutritional Genomics.

To see contact information for each person, please click on the names.

Senior Scientists

Harold Helbock, M.D., Assistant Clinical Scientist
Patricia Wakimoto, Ph.D., Assistant Staff Scientist
David Killilea, Ph.D., Associate Staff Scientist webpage
Joyce McCann, Ph.D., Assistant Staff Scientist
Jung-Hyuk Suh, Ph.D., Assistant Staff Scientist

Post-Doctoral Scientists

Swapna Shenvi, Ph.D.
Syed Askree, Ph.D.CV

Assistant Clinical Scientist

Ashutosh Lal, M.D.

Visiting Scientist

Michele Mietus-Snyder, M.D.

Graduate Student

C. Julia Vance CV

Undergraduate Students

Alice Cha

Scientific Support Staff

Anureet Tiwana
Burcu Yavuz


Administrative Support Staff

John Nides
Teresa Klask
Priscilla Vargas

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI),
5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland CA 94609.
Phone: (510) 450-7625
CHORI E-mail: bames@chori.org

Recent News

November 2008

October 2008

  • A new web graphic of Gold, Ames & Slone uses a Margin of Exposure index to provide a broad perspective on possible cancer hazards from human exposures to chemicals that cause cancer in high dose rodent tests. Exposures include high historical exposures to workers, pharmaceuticals, natural chemicals in the average diet (e.g., natural pesticides that plants produce to defend themselves), air pollutants, food additives, and pesticide residues. Human exposure levels range from close to the rodent carcinogenic dose for a few historical exposures in the workplace to a billion times less the rodent carcinogenic dose for some pesticide residues. Human consumption of the background of natural chemicals in food is usually closer to the rodent carcinogenic dose than pesticide residues or pollutants, and half the natural chemicals tested are carcinogenic in high dose tests. Recent risk assessment methods indicate that for some chemicals the mechanism of carcinogenesis in rodents at high dose is not relevant to humans.

June 2008

  • The CHORI webpage news article on Killilea & Ames magnesium Study:
    read article
  • Ames & Killilea News Study listed in 'AFAR Grantee's In the News' list
    go to AFAR site

April 2008

October 2007

For information on symposium proceedings and media please go to the Second Annual International Bruce Ames Symposium Website held at UC Davis.

Downloadable Media

The downloadable media section is constantly being updated. You will find that some links are not yet available. We apologize for the inconvenience and request that you come back periodically, to check for future availability.

Among the items available for download is a high resolution TIFF formated photograph of Dr. Ames (300 dpi resolution, and a 7MB ZIP archive), and Dr. Ames' streamed video lectures.

Dr. Ames' publications are also available by request to students and colleagues.
To request copies of Dr. Ames' publications, please fill out this electronic form.
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