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CASCADE Open Forum 2008 in Brussels
"Endocrine disruption - present health threats and future research needs "
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Material to down load
Please feel free to down load material from our meeting here.
Opinion Paper:
"Challenges in future European Endocrine disruption research - oulining identified research needs and opportunities" (pdf 879 kb)
Power point presentations from the presentations (all documents are pdf files):
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From the morning sessions, introducing presentations, etc: | |
Prof Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Coordinator CASCADE
"Endocrine Disruption - present health threats and future research needs" | |
Dr Patricia Pazos, Scientific Officer, Joint Research Center
"Current ECVAM activities. Non animal testing approaches for the detection of EDCs" | |
Dr Robert Kavlock, Director of National Center for Computational Toxicology, US EPA
"Present and Future Strategies for Screening for Endocrine Disruptors Prospects for US-EU Cooperation" | |
Dr Lisette Van Vliet, Toxics policy Advisor, Health & Environment Allance, HEAL.
"EDCs and breast cancer" | |
Dr Marc Willuhn, Manager, Research & Innovation, European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic)
"Testing and assessment or endocrine disrupter - the need for a globally harmonised framework" | |
From the session "Endocrine Disruption and Health threats" | |
Dr Jean-Pierre Cravedi
"Introduction to the session" | |
Dr Jean-Philippe Antignac
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Prof Olle Söder
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Prof Nicolás Olea
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From the session "Assessment of Endocrine Disruption risks and hazards" | |
Prof Helen Håkansson "Introduction to the session" | |
Prof Helen Håkansson
"European Training of risk and safety assessors" | |
Rita Cortvrindt
"Incorporation of in vitro bioassays in the tiered testing strategy" | |
Dr Alberto Mantovani
"ED Issues for research in exposure assessment" | |
From the session "Validated methods and models to detect endocrine activity" | |
Prof Emilio Benfenati “In silico methods in assesseing risks for endocrine disruptors”
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Prof Barbara Demeneix “Transgenic Xenopus as a small model organism for ED screening” | |
Dr Anne Gourmelon “Progress with the development of test guidelines for the detection of ED”
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Dr Bart van Der Burg “Screening for endocrine active substances using in vitro reporter gene assays”
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Description of the idea and specific items of the meeting:
CASCADE Open Forum 2008 description (pdf 151 kb)
Folder with the final programme:
CASCADE Research poster:
CASCADE Research Poster size A4 (pdf 153 kb)
Press invitation:
Press invitation CASCADE Open Forum (pdf 41 kb)
The following documents where used as inputs to prepare for the meeting:
More information
Please contact Jill Jönsson, Communication manager CASCADE at jill.jonsson@ki.se or +46 70 56 39 565 if you have any questions.
Organizers
CASCADE Open Forum is a joint activity organized by eight leading EU-funded projects: ATHON, BioCop, CAESAR, CASCADE, CRESCENDO, NewGeneris, ReProTect and SME-RECEPOR
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