Tom earned the prestigious John J. Abel Award in 1971, awarded for the best original, outstanding research in the field of pharmacology. At age 35, he was the youngest to have ever won the award. Throughout the rest of his lengthy career, Tom was also awarded a Fogarty Senior International Fellowship, FASEB Visiting Professor Award and Kenneth P. Dubois Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science and Practice of Toxicology, and he is included in Britannica’s Who’s Who in America. Tom wrote over 200 publications for scholarly journals and hundreds of reviews, book chapters and abstracts; was invited to give over 50 key presentations at conferences across the world; was awarded millions of dollars in research grants; chaired and sat on numerous committees for The University of Iowa and national organizations, including National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environment Health Sciences, Environmental Protection Agency, American Cancer Society, National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Navy - Nuclear Submarine Air Quality, International Life Sciences Institute, as well as several editorial and award selection advisory boards.