More and more nano materials are being used in products we use every day, but in order to ensure this proliferation can deliver the innovation society needs, we must ensure that they are safe to use. At the moment, this is both time consuming and expensive. NANOSOLUTIONS is an EU-funded project that aims to change
Bengt Fadeel of the Karolinska Institutet spoke about the possibilities of using transcriptomics — gene expression profiling — to aid in the prediction of mechanisms of toxicity. By coupling global “omics” technologies with computational approaches to determine significant perturbations of genes or pathways, one can identify the potential hazards and mechanisms of action of ENMs.
The morning session on the first day of the conference was titled “Nanosafety: Setting the scene”. Kai Savolainen of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health began with his talk on the importance of risk assessments for engineered nanomaterials. Exposure and hazard assessment of ENMs are increasingly important in workplaces where people are exposed to them
The opening keynote lecture at The Systems Biology in Nanosafety Research conference, taking place at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, brought the perspectives of a material scientist to the forum with a fascinating talk by Professor Olli Ikkala. Professor Ikkala, of the Department of Applied Physics and Centre of Excellence of Molecular Engineering of Biosynthetic
Nano to go is offering companies practical guidance on the safe handling of nanomaterials in the workplace. The programme was developed within the EU FP7 project NanoValid by the German Federal Institute for Occupational health (BAuA). Within the literature tasks that a scientist may be carrying out, at a university or in business, are specified and they
As one of Europe’s leading authorities on nano safety research, NANOSOLUTIONS Project Coordinator Kai Savolainen has been asked to take part in a wide-ranging European survey on nanotechnology research, innovation and market development, and regulations, conducted on behalf of the European Commission, which is currently developing its EU nanotechnology research, development and innovation strategy. The
IPL recently hosted the latest NANOSOLUTIONS dissemination committee meeting, at which committee members discussed the current work of different work packages, the NANOSOLUTIONS safety Classifier and plans by IPL to increase communications activity now that results are beginning to emerge from the project’s experiments. At the core of this communication activity will be the NANOSOLUTIONS
eNanoMapper are hosting a new webinar on Enriching protein corona fingerprints using gene ontology information: an integration technique. The webinar will be broadcast from The National Technical University of Athens(NTUA), Greece and should be of real interest to Nanosolutions partners and IAG members. The webinar takes place on the 29th October 2015, at 17:00 CET and
The latest NANOSOLUTIONS newsletter is now available. In this newsletter we have an interview with Dr André Nel who gave a talk at the SENN2015 congress on "Use of Alternative Test Strategies, Predictive Toxicological Approaches and Categorisation to expedite Decision Analysis of Nanomaterial Safety” We have an update from WP4, who explain some of the
Nanosolutions has teamed up with another FP7 project working on nano safety in an ambitious collaboration effort with NanoMILE. Together, the two projects are cooperating with their work to examine alternative test methods for nanosafety assessment using high throughput and “omics” approaches. It is hoped this cooperation between two FP7 projects will speed up the