The EHESP School of Public Health and the IRSET Research institute for environmental and occupational health organized the 5th European Doctoral College on Environment and Health (EDCEH) in Rennes, France, 4-6 June 2018. EDC-MixRisk was represented in the meeting by Dr. Anastasia Repouskou from the School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. […]
The conference entitled ”Aiming for a Safe Chemical Environment: New Frontiers in the Comprehension of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Exposure, Effects and Specific Risk Assessment Requirements” took place in Les Diablerets, June 3-8, 2018. It was the 11th Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors. EDC-MixRisk was represented in the meeting by Prof. Carl-Gustaf Bornehag from […]
Five EC funded H2020 and FP7 research projects i.e. EDC-MixRisk, EuroMix, EU-ToxRisk, HBM4EU and SOLUTIONS, are working together to address different aspects of the impacts of mixtures on human health and the environment, including also research activities at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Through this collaboration, synergies, knowledge […]
EDC-MixRisk Annual Consortium Meeting will take place 22-24 May 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. The programme will be packed with intense discussions preparing for the final year, as the project will end in spring 2019. The first day of the annual meeting will focus on discussing the key results and expected outcomes of the project, whereas […]
EDC-MixRisk project will organize a session “Integrating epidemiology and experimental toxicology to understand the risk of endocrine disrupting chemical mixtures on children” at the EUROTOX 2018 Congress which takes place in Brussels, 2-5 September 2018. Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and potential EDCs are found in various materials such as personal care products, pesticides, metals, additives […]
EDC-MixRisk will organize its Steering Committee meeting in Milan, Italy, 12-13 December 2017. The meeting will be hosted by the Italian project partner, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), and it will gather all Principal Investigators of the project to discuss the overall progress and potential challenges. Particularly, the purpose of the meeting is to discuss […]
PhD student Iuliia Savchuk, who is involved in the EDC-MixRisk project, defended her thesis 13 October 2017 in Astrid Lindgren´s Children Hospital, Stockholm. The title of her thesis is “Diverse effects of endocrine-disruptive chemicals on Leydig and adrenocortical cell steroidogenesis in humans and rodents”. The aim of the thesis was to examine the impact of […]
EDC-MixRisk was represented by Dr. Mattias Öberg (Karolinska Institutet/Swetox) at the WHO Chemical Risk Assessment Network meeting that was organized in Parma, Italy 20-22 June 2017. The meeting, hosted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), assembled 83 top organizations within the field of chemical risk assessment from all regions world wide. Development of a […]
EDC-MixRisk will organize a workshop in Brussels, 25-26 September 2017. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) approach and to explore the approach from the EDC-MixRisk perspective. The second day of the workshop will focus especially on aspects of societal impact and building key messages based on recent research […]
The EDC-MixRisk Consortium came together for its annual meeting in Stockholm, 15-17 May, to discuss the project’s progress and future activities. The meeting was organized as a three-day event, combining an 1) Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) workshop 2) a joint meeting between EDC-MixRisk and EDC-2020 to present scientific results and 3) one and half days […]