Education

• Postdoctoral training, Duke University, 1971-1973
• PhD, Columbia University, 1971
• BA in Chemistry, Queens College of the City University of New York, 1967

Research

Henry Jay Forman, PhD, is a leading authority in the areas of oxidative stress, antioxidant defenses and redox signaling. Although emeritus, he continues to consult on projects investigating the mechanisms underlying the decline in antioxidant protection in aging, the role of iron in air pollution-induced inflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease, and the role of lipid peroxidation in cell signaling.

Overview

Forman has held faculty positions at the University of Kansas (Biochemistry), University of Pennsylvania (Physiology), University of Alabama at Birmingham (Chair of Environmental Health Sciences), University of California at Merced (Founding Faculty in School of Natural Sciences) and at USC previously (Pediatrics, Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pathology).

Forman’s research achievements are pioneering work in mitochondrial superoxide production in which he demonstrated that manganese superoxide dismutase actually pulls the reaction forward, redox signaling in which he first demonstrated signaling by endogenously generated hydrogen peroxide, and mechanisms of induced resistance to oxidative stress in which he demonstrated the induction by quinones of the first enzyme in glutathione biosynthesis. He has over 240 peer-reviewed publications and been an invited lecturer at many national and international symposia. Forman is Past President of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine and served for many years as the Reviews Editor of Free Radical Biology & Medicine and is currently Assigning Editor for the journal. He is also now Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.