Larry Cook, PhD, DABT, joined the Duke Toxicology Program in January 1997. Prior to that he was an assistant scientist in the Psychiatry Department at the University of Florida. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the toxicology programs at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1988 to 1991 and at Duke University between 1986 and 1988. He was a research chemist with research activity in neurochemistry and analytical chemistry at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Neurotoxicology Division, Research Triangle Park between 1978 and 1986, and a research chemist with focus on analytical chemistry at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Center in Pensacola between 1975 and 1978.
Cook earned a BS in Chemistry from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and received an MS in Biochemistry with research in enzymology reaction kinetics, purification and active-site characterization at the University of Georgia in Athens. Cook earned a doctorate in toxicology from North Carolina State University in 1986, and has been a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology since 2008.