Nanosolutions presented at ESOF 2016 Nanosafety experts from Nanosolutions and other EU projects took part in a fascinating presentation and discussion session at the EuroScience Open Forum – ESOF 2016 – in Manchester, UK, on Wednesday, July 27. The session was hosted by Kai Savolainen of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, alongside the Academy
Latest meeting between NANOSOLUTIONS and NanoMile The latest in a series of high-level meetings between the NanoMILE and NanoSolutions projects is due to take place in Stockholm on September 13-14, 2016. The series of consensus meetings about nanosafety science has been considering alternative test methods for assessing the risk potential of nano particles being used
As the number of H2020 projects come closer to exceeding the number of FP7 projects still running, the focus of investment and research has moved increasingly towards predictive and high throughput approaches to nanosafety, including safety-by-design, bioinformatics, as well as the utilisation of nano-characterisation and safety datasets to support regulation and nanoproduct commercialisation. TheEuropean NanoSafety Cluster
Roland Grafström of Misvik talks about the companies role in NANOSOLUTIONS so far and how their high-throughput screening has the potential to change the way people design experiments. The Misvik Biology Corporation was developed to serve the needs of small academic laboratories and companies looking for access to high-throughput cell based screening (which allows for huge numbers
The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and the Academy of Finland are hosting a panel discussion on questions of nanosafety in connection with the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference in Manchester. The panel discussion will take place under the heading “The small matter of safety – responsible use of nanotechnology”. It will take place on Wednesday
Dr Socorro Vázquez-Campos, Nanosolutions WP leader on life-cycle analysis, recently participated in a Stakeholder Workshop that was organized in Brussels on June 21. Thepurpose of the workshop was to discuss the interim findings of a study which will provide support for the upcoming third regulatory review on nanomaterials and environment legislation. The workshop proved a valuable platform
Nanotechnology has emerged as a potentially novel and promising way of combating a number of human diseases including cancer in early and late stages - from cell detection and targeting, to drug delivery and cell imaging. Several approaches have been taken to advance various nanoparticle designs to maximize efficiency while consecutively abating toxicity. Nanotoxicology has
Kailen Boodhia is a young scientist at the National Institute for Occupational Health in South Africa. As part of a collaboration between the EU and South Africa, he is working with the NANOSOLUTIONS project, helping to develop a nanosafety classifier that will make it quicker and cheaper to test the safety of new engineered nanomaterials. Kailen is hoping
It is a great pleasure to announce the “2nd Nanosafety Forum for Young Scientists” jointly organised by the EU NanoSafety Cluster and FP7-eNanoMapper. The event, which is a follow-up to the first meeting that took place in Syracuse, Sicily in 2014, will take place in Visby, Gotland, Sweden, on September 15 and September 16, 2016. The
A number of African nations have decided to establish a network to build capacity on the safety of nanomaterials. The decision was taken at a workshop in Lusaka, Zambia, organised by the UN Institute for Training and Research (Unitar) and Zambia’s Environmental Management Agency (Zema), with funding from Switzerland. Georg Karlaganis, senior adviser for Unitar’s
