James Hewett is an associate professor in Department of Biology of Syracuse University, New York United States. He specializes in human toxicology, neurobiology and pathology.

Neuroscience and central nervous system neurobiology and pathology, neuromodulators and epilepsy, arachidonic acid metabolism and cyclooxygenase-2, cytokines and interleukin-1β, signal transduction and gene expression, animal models, transgenic mice, cell culture, pharmacology.