Apr 15, 2024 | Meet RISK-HUNT3R
The RISK-HUNT3R project is pleased to invite all interested stakeholders to the second edition of its public Stakeholder Symposium, taking place on the 11th and 12th of June 2024 at Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.
The event will be dedicated to RISK-HUNT3R partners and stakeholders from industry, regulatory organizations, and international initiatives on new approach methods (NAM)-based chemical risk assessment.
The second edition of the RISK-HUNT3R Stakeholder Symposium‘s programme will be focusing on four key topics:
- Update on ASPA safety assessment workflow, with examples on practical application and its incorporation into the ASPA dashboard;
- RISK-HUNT3R Case studies on applicability of ASPA for NAM-based NGRA;
- Focus on Case study on hazard endpoints of RISK-HUNT3R;
- Scientific achievements in RISK-HUNT3R at year-3 of project deployment through speed talks and posters.
All precisions on event hours and topics are available to all in the RISK-HUNT3R Stakeholder Symposium agenda.
Registrations will launch in the week of April 22nd, 2024. Be sure to stay tuned for the incoming registration link!
For further information, please contact the Project Office at riskhunt3r_arttic@eurtd.com.
Mar 29, 2024 | Meet RISK-HUNT3R
Taking place in Nigara Falls (Canada) on August 27-31 2023, the 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences (WC12) had for objective “to bring together multidisciplinary stakeholders from academia, industry, government, and non-profit sectors under one roof to advance the 3Rs—to reduce, refine, and replace the use of animals in the life sciences”. RISK-HUNT3R partners contributed to the WC12 with several talks and posters.
RISK-HUNT3R/ASPIS information material was distributed at project booth #38 at the conference exhibition.
Unilever organized the well-visited #UseScienceNotAnimals World Café, where several RISK-HUNT3R partners pitched their alternative approaches to animal testing.
Dedicated sessions on ASPIS activities included:
- #S455 Progress in Quantifying Adverse Outcome Pathways to Support Next Generation Risk Assessment chaired by Huan Yang (ONTOX) and Mark Cronin (RISK-HUNT3R);
- #S449 ASPIS: From Molecular Toxicology to Regulatory Acceptance – the Next Steps for Animal-Free Testing chaired by Bob van de Water (RISK-HUNT3R) and Mathieu Vinken (ONTOX).
Matteo Piumatti (Altertox) interviewed several ASPIS members like Dr Gladys Ouédraogo, Sylvia Escher and Elisabet Berggren from RISK-HUNT3R, Eliška Kuchovská and Mathieu Vinken from ONTOX, as well as Jonathan Freedman from PrecisionTox to hear their impressions of the WC12. Videos are available on the Altertox webpage dedicated to the event.
Mar 26, 2024 | Meet RISK-HUNT3R
RISK-HUNT3R members, Tamara Danilyuk and Kirsten Veltman, were awarded for their scientific contributions at EUROTOX2023.
Tamara Danilyuk (Leiden University) received the EUROTOX 2023 Early Career Award/ ECETOC Christa Hennes Award for her work on toxicological research into mechanisms and risk assessment.
Kirsten Veltman (RIVM) with the ESTIV Best Poster Award for her work on the Application of Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis as Mode of Action Screening Method for Suspected Non-Genotoxic Carcinogens Inducing Oxidative Stress.
Jul 26, 2023 | Meet RISK-HUNT3R
Palle Steen Helmke and the RISK-HUNT3R poster on Systemic Fingerprints for Predicting Liver Related Adverse Events at QSAR 2023.
The RISK-HUNT3R project attended the 20th International Workshop on (Q)SAR in Environmental and Health Sciences in June 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Palle Steen Helmke, from University of Vienna (Austria), has received the Best Poster Award 2023 for his work on Systemic Fingerprints for Predicting Liver Related Adverse Events with Barbara Füzi and Gerhard F. Ecker.
The poster awarded is available here.
More information on the QSAR2023 is available here.
Apr 26, 2023 | Meet RISK-HUNT3R, News
The RISK-HUNT3R project is pleased to invite all interested stakeholders to its upcoming Stakeholder Symposium, taking place on the 13th and 14th of June 2023 at Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.
The event will be dedicated to RISK-HUNT3R partners and stakeholders from industry, regulatory organizations, and international initiatives on new approach methods (NAM)-based chemical risk assessment.
The objectives for the participants of the RISK-HUNT3R Stakeholder Symposium are to:
- Learn about the ASPIS Profiling Algorithm (ASPA), a platform to implement and operationalize NGRA;
- Learn how and where NAMs populate the ASPA modules (hazard, exposure, toxicokinetics & IVIVE, and data integration);
- Engage with the RISK-HUNT3R consortium, learn about further ASPA development, and identify collaborative inroads;
- Get familiar with the NGRA ecosystem and interact with key experts from ongoing chemical risk assessment initiatives.
The agenda is available to all. Online registration is closed.
For further information, please contact the Project Office at riskhunt3r_arttic@eurtd.com.
Sep 11, 2022 | Meet RISK-HUNT3R, News
The ASPIS Open Symposium happened during the 21st European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV) Congress on 24-25 November 2022 in Sitges, Barcelona (Spain), a bi-annual appointment aiming to create a forum of scientists in a unique atmosphere for discussions and knowledge exchange focusing on the development of in vitro and in silico approaches.
During this event, the ASPIS cluster presented the work performed by the three Horizon 2020 projects composing the consortia (ONTOX, PrecisionTOX, and RISKHUNT3R). The objectives of the ASPIS Open Symposium included:
- Increasing confidence in and promoting NAM regulatory uptake;
- Delineating foreseen ASPIS impact on regulatory issues;
- Engaging young researchers and supporting scientific networking;
- Facilitating interactions among ASPIS and international stakeholders.
