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3/10/2016
​Project EU-ToxRisk and US Initiative Tox21 new collaboration
The EU-ToxRisk project and the Toxicology in the 21st Century (Tox21) initiative in the US have agreed to collaborate on efforts to reduce the use of animals and achieve more efficient chemical safety assesments. A total of 28 representatives from both projects gathered in a workshop held in Mainz (Germany) on the 12th-14th September 2016 to initiate collaboration across areas of mutual interest within the field of risk assessment.
Two groups of GRIB participate in the EU-ToxRisk project coordinating the application of computational methods: the PharmacoInformatics group led by Manuel Pastor and the Integrative Bioinformatics group led by Ferran Sanz, and therefore will play a major role in this collaboration. In particular, the GRIB will participate in the joint development and validation of core methodologies for hazard and risk assessment, as read-across, quantitative AOP and similarity metrics.
You can find further information in the EU-ToxRisk-Tox21 joint Press Release.
You can read also the press release in catalan and spanish at the UPF website.
