Plenary Speakers
Published on 30 September 2020
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CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
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in elucidating the environmental behavior of nanomaterials Mark Wiesner – Tuesday 17th of
November 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
Director
of the NSF Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
at Duke University, Durham, USA
Mark R. Wiesner holds the James B.
Duke Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. He
serves as Director of the NSF Center for the Environmental Implications
of NanoTechnology (CEINT). His work has focused on applications of
emerging nanomaterials to membrane science and water treatment and an
examination of the fate, transport, and effects of nanomaterials in the
environment. Wiesner is a musician (electric and double bass), a 2004 de
Fermat Laureate, the 2011 recipient of the Clarke Water Prize and was
elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
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| Reducing the burden
of testing nanomaterial safety via grouping and read-across - The GRACIOUS
Framework Vicki Stone – Thursday 19th of
November 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
Director of the Institute of Biological
Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh,
UK. Vicki Stone is also an Honorary Principal Scientist
at the Institute of Occupational Medicine. Vicki is a fellow of the
Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal
Society of Edinburgh. She was the holder of the Royal Society of
Chemistries Toxicology Award (2015-16) and the Editor-in-chief of the
journal Nanotoxicology (http://informahealthcare.com/nan)
for 6 years (2006-2011). Vicki has also published over 165 publications
pertaining to particle toxicology over the last 25 years. Between 2015
and 2018 Vicki was recognised by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson
Reuters) as one of the top 1% of all researchers in the world for the
most cited publications in the field of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Vicki is currently involved in three new large EU funded projects
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GRACIOUS
(for which Vicki is coordinator) will generate a framework for
streamlining the risk assessment by facilitating grouping and
read-across of nanomaterials. PATROLS will generate advanced
alternative models for assessing the hazards of nanomaterials to humans
and other species. BIORIMA will generate a risk assessment framework
for nanomedicines. Other current funding includes UK Research Councils
(BBSRC and NC3Rs) and industry (Byk/Altana).
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