Dr. Smith is a laboratory scientist with expertise in molecular epidemiology, toxicology, and genomics, and his research is aimed at finding the causes of chronic diseases, including cancer and diabetes. He currently teaches Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment and mentors graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the Molecular Toxicology, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Science programs. He has mentored dozens of graduate students and post-docs in his 36 years at UC Berkeley. Dr. Smith is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the 2010 Children’s Environmental Health Network Award, became an Elected Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini in 2012, and received the Alexander Hollaender Award from the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society in 2014.