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 […]
2nd International Fresenius MIXTOX Conference “Toxicity of Chemical Mixtures: Risk, Hazard and Exposure Assessment” will be organized in Cologne, Germany 8‐9 June 2017. Prof. Åke Bergman, EDC-MixRisk Coordinator, will give some insights and provide an overview of EDC-MixRisk at the conference. The title of his talk is EDC-MixRisk – a novel approach for assessing EDCs. […]
9th Copenhagen Workshop on Endocrine Disrupters – COW2017 will take place May 2-5, 2017 In Copenhagen, Denmark. The scientific programme will focus on reproduction and child health, which are both fundamental aspects of human health and more relevant than ever. Several EDC-MixRisk researchers will participate in the workshop and present results of their research.
The annual Consortium meeting will be organized in Stockholm, 15-17 May 2017. The first day of the meeting will focus on presenting some of the key results of EDC-MixRisk project as well as of EDC-2020 project. Also a workshop on Adverse Outcome Pathways will take place in the context of the meeting. The following days […]