Background
Staples, Robert Edward was born on December 5, 1931 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. Son of Edward Arnold and Helen Marguerite (Rorabeck) Staples. came to the United States, 1956.
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Robert Edward Staples
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Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture, U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 1954; Master of Science, U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1961.
Career
Head endocrinology section, William S. Merrell Company, Inc., Cincinnati, 1961-1963;
staff scientist, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 1963-1967;
head reproduction and teratology, senior research fellow, Merck Institute Therapeutic Research, West Point, Pennsylvania, 1967-1971;
section head reproduction and teratology, National Institute Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1971-1978;
staff teratologist Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology, Industrial Medical, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company, Newark, Delaware, 1978-1994;
president, Staples Consulting, Inc., Newark, since 1994. United States representative in teratology for United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Collaboration in Environmental Health, 1972-1979. Adjunct associate professor pharmacology U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974-1978.
Adjunct associate professor anatomy Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, since 1980. Project director Environmental Teratology Information Center, Research Triangle Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1975-1978. Consultant Office Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry Health, Institute de la Vie, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, American Petroleum Institute, Chemical Manufacturers Association, American Industrial Health Council.
Achievements
Membership
President Covered Bridge Farms Maintenance Corporation, Newark, 1989-1990. Member International Federation Teratology Socs. (chairman 1983-1985), Teratology Society (president 1983-1984), Society Toxicology (president reproductive and development toxicology section 1991-1992), Society for Study Reproduction (charter), European Teratology Society, American College Toxicology, Neurotoxicology and Teratology Society, Newark Rotary (club president 1981-1982).
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Married Sandra Hay, June 15, 1957. Children: Shannon Louise, Robert Timothy.
