Scientific Sessions


Program Overview (Monday, March 17–Thursday, March 20)


Historical Highlight


- Ozone Toxicology: Historical Perspectives of the Science that Shaped the Regulatory Standards



Informational Sessions

- Cross-Cultural Understanding of Asian and Western Cultural Values in the Workplace
- Detection of Biological Free Radicals in Time and Space
- Future Paths for Puget Sound: Contaminants, Cultures, and Ecosystem Risk Characterization—A Special Regional Interest Session
- Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): A New Language for Toxicologists
- Implementation of the ICH S8 Immunotoxicity Testing Guideline
- Mentoring 101–How to Mentor, How to Be Mentored
- NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES) Awardees
- Professional Career Development as a Toxicologist
- Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Job Interviewing Workshop for Early-Career Scientists
- Toxicological and Public Health Challenges in Africa
- REACH: Implementation, Chemical Safety, and Information Requirements



Roundtables

- The 2007 Pet Food Related Toxic Nephropathy in Dogs and Cats
- Breaking the Log-Jam: Public-Private Partnerships as a Way to Discover and Advance Biomarkers of Drug-Induced Toxicity
- A Case Study on the Risks and Benefits of Deca-BDE, a - Major Brominated Flame Retardant
- The Future Of Toxicology
- Hazard vs. Risk for Chemical Regulation
- Human Health Risk Assessment for Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (PIE)
- Immunotoxicity Testing: Should Elevated Antibody Responses Be Interpreted As An Indicator of Immunotoxicological Hazard?
- Biofuel Combustion: An Emerging Health Problem?
- Reconciling Scientific and Ethical Concerns in the Use of Animals for Toxicological Research
- Reproductive Toxicity Studies: One Generation versus Two Generations
- Risk Assessment for Biotherapeutics
- Toxicology Training Needs: New Faces and New Tools for the 21st Century



Symposia

- Arsenic and Cardiovascular Disease
- Cellular Redox Status and Zinc Signaling
- Drug-induced Mitochondrial Toxicity: Novel Insights—Novel Tools
- Endothelial Dysfunction: More than Just a 'No NO' Phenomenon
- Environmental Influence on Female Puberty and Breast Tumorigenesis
- Developmental Basis of Health and Disease
- Metals, Microglia, and Neuroinflammation
- Molecular and Genomic Insights into The Nrf2-Regulated - Oxidative Stress Response: Impact On Carcinogenesis
- Molecular Basis for Susceptibility to Chemical Toxicity and Disease
- Nanomaterial Pharmacokinetics: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
- Neurotoxicant-Induced Alterations in Developmental and Adult Neurogenesis: Structure-Function Studies and Clinical Relevance
- New Concepts in the Etiology of Breast Cancer: From Genes to Environment and Back Again
- New Developments in Liver Tumor Biology
- Novel Biomarkers Of Drug-Induced Toxicity: Outcomes Of Predtox and The Predictive Safety Testing Consortium
Oxidant Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma
- Particle Interactions with Biomaterials: Beyond Opsonization
- Perinatal Exposure to Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs) Induces Transplacental Genotoxicity and Mitochondrial Toxicity
- Stem Cells in Developmental and Reproductive Biology and Toxicology
- Stem Cells: New Tools for Neurotoxicologists
- Unusual Manifestations of On-Target and Off-Target
Toxicity: Toxicity of Kinase Inhibitors


Workshops

- Advances in Technology and Increasing Acceptance for Zebrafish Use in Drug Discovery
- Chlorotriazine Herbicides and Their Common Degradation Products of Concern: Disposition and Potential Health Effects
- Current Perspectives on Ocular and Systemic Safety Risks of Therapeutics
- Dermal Toxicological Assessment of Nanomaterials and Nanodevices
- Drug-Related Torsades des Pointes: Advancements in Preclinical Modeling of Potential Cardiac Toxicity
- Genotoxicity Testing from Early Discovery Through Regulatory Submission: A Comprehensive Primer
- Host Susceptibility and Chemical Safety Testing: New Approaches to Estimate Risks in The Human Population
- Incorporation of Mode-of-Action into Mechanistically-Based Quantitative Models
- Interdisciplinary Approaches for Improving Chemical Hazard Testing Paradigms
- LLNA: False Positives, False Negatives and Alternative Endpoints
- Mixture Exposures to Metals/Metalloids and Related Health Effects
- Molecular Mechanisms and Molecular Biology of Metal Carcinogenesis
- Natural Killer Cells as Targets of Drugs, Toxicants, and Biologicals
- Pulmonary Toxicity Testing of Nanoparticles
- Safe Approaches to Topical Product Development
Strategies for Assessing Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology of Bio-Pharmaceuticals
- The Allergic March: The Role of Chemicals in The Increasing Prevalence of Allergy and Asthma
- Threshold of Toxicologic Concern: Historical Perspectives and Future Applications
- To Dye or Not to Dye: Safety of Oxidative Hair Dyes
- Use Of Behavioral and Non-Routine Neurological Approaches in Drug Discovery Toxicology
- Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Current Application of Genomic Tools in Product Development and Decision Making

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