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Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) are becoming a fashionable term in the toxicological risk assessment stage. But what does AOP mean? Most important, to what purpose we could use AOPs?
AOP describe the chain of events from the first interaction of any chemical with a molecular target to an adverse outcome; this could be either an effect detected in regulatory toxicity testing, or a health disorder observed in humans, domestic animals or wildlife. Therefore, the ambition of the AOPs conceptual framework is to build a new paradigm of toxicological testing, based on the keywords ‘relevance’ and ‘predictivity’. Any chemical triggering an upstream molecular/cellular event with sufficient intensity is flagged as a chemical able to perturb adversely a physiological pathway, and therefore induce a certain kind of toxicity. Definitely, a facinating aspect of AOP are the potential cross-talk and cross-fertilization between toxicology and biomedicine, a field which is making impressive steps forward. But, how AOP can, in practice, improve oxicity testing and toxicological risk assessment?
The key learning objective of the education course on AOP within the 46th ETS Conference is to illustrate strengths, opportunities, limitations and uncertainties of the use of AOP, based on practical experiences in three key areas of the risk assessment of chemical substances, namely: pesticides, endocrine disrupting chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
The objective of this Challenge is to identify partners with novel solutions/expertise to help develop alternative, efficacious, non-animal (preferably in vitro or in silico based) assay(s) to more efficiently evaluate the developmental toxicity potential of candidate chemicals (molecular weight 300-800 g/Mol). Each assay would ideally be easy to implement, faster and cheaper than the traditional assays already available, while improving or at least maintaining acceptable predictability as compared to already available assays. The overall solution is considered likely to be a combination of several assays that are complementary (in parallel or successive) to each other. Individual assays can be specific to one mode of action known to associate with developmental toxicity in mammals
Berlin will be the venue for the 46th Annual Meeting of the European Teratology Society, which will be held on Monday 10th to Thursday 13th September 2018.
Budapest will be the venue for the 45th Annual Meeting of the European Teratology Society, which will be held on Monday 4th to Thursday 7th September 2017.
Dublin was the venue for the 44th Annual Meeting of the European Teratology Society, which has been held on 11th to 14th September 2016.
The FDA has published a new Guidance for Industry on the Assessment of Male-Mediated Developmental Risk for Pharmaceuticals:
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/UCM450627.pdf
In 2014, the Sustaining Membership Scheme was created. The aim of the Sustaining Membership Scheme is to encourage, educate, and support our Young Scientist to become the "Teratologists of Tomorrow". This will be achieved through small research bursaries, travel grants, and reduced registration fees at our annual meetings.
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