This practical toxicological course will provide an introduction to the recent regulatory schemes for the integration of the results of in silico methods and read across. The focus will be on the evaluation of ingredients of cosmetic products. Thanks to the results of a large project funded by a number of cosmetic companies engaged in the field of 3Rs, the course guides you through some schemes to evaluate the substances using non-testing methods. Practical case studies will indicate examples for the assessment of specific endpoints, such as mutagenicity skin sensitization.

Anmeldeschluss: 14.05.2018.

Woher stammen die Schadstoffe im Innenraumklima? Wie reduzieren wir die negativen Effekte unserer IT-Umgebung? Ist wohnen auf ehemaligen Industriearealen gesund? Verursachen verdichtete Siedlungen Stress? Warum schützt uns keiner vor Strassenlarm? Ausgewiesene Spezialistlnnen erläutern das neuste Wissen aus ihren Fachbereichen. Die Tagung richtet sich an Ärzte/Ärztinnen, Baufachleute, Architekt/inn/en oder Behördenmitglieder, die sich für gesundes Wohnen engagieren.

Scientists from academia, business/industry and government and from various disciplines will find new opportunities to present, to debate and to disseminate the most recent scientific knowledge, developments and applications for reducing and regulating the use of chemicals in the environment, remediating soil, air and water pollution, and proposing the use of more sustainable chemicals.

This TEDD workshop, a day of science, automation and visit of the liquid handling instrumentation production site, will take place at Tecan headquarters in Männedorf.

The aim of the meeting is to gather researchers and scientists interested or working in the fields of experimental pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, clinical, experimental or regulatory toxicology, or in pharmaceutical medicine. Each discipline will present the opportunities and perspectives in their fields. In this context we also aim to encourage and foster the contacts between the academic, clinical and industrial sector.  

The theme of the congress is “From Science to Human and Environmental Health Benefits.”

The course consists of a series of lectures and two hands-on exercises on skin irritation and biokinetics. It is taught by experts in three areas of in vitro toxicology, namely regulatory in vitro toxicology, screening in vitro toxicology and investigative in vitro toxicology. See programme.

The Scientific Program Committee is preparing a program that will highlight a wide diversity of aspects in the field of genetic toxicology. Speakers and key note lecturers will cover a variety of current aspects in relation to DNA damage and mutations caused by environmental agents, cell-type specificity of genotoxicity and DNA repair, alternatives to animals testing including emerging models and techniques, new approaches in human biomonitoring, hot topics in carcinogenicity, next generation risk assessment in genotoxicity and genome safety in gene therapy.