Please forward widely. Workshop Announcement: The National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) will cosponsor a scientific workshop on “Adverse Outcome Pathways: From Research to Regulation.” The workshop proposes to explore and discuss how interaction and collaboration among stakeholders can be initiated and maintained so that scientific progress in adverse outcome pathway (AOP) concepts may improve regulatory assessment of chemical toxicity. The Society of Toxicology endorses this workshop. The meeting will take place from September 3–5, 2014 at the William H. Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. This workshop is free as is the concurrent plenary presentations webcast. Registration for the workshop or webcast along with other information and a preliminary agenda are available at: http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/41374. Dr. Christopher Austin of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences will provide the opening plenary presentation. Days 1 and 2 of the workshop will include 21 symposium presentations in four sessions: 1) Building Upon Other Efforts 2) AOPs Under Development 3) Case Studies: Regulatory Uses for Well-Identified AOPs 4) The Risk Context. Days 2 and 3 will include three different interactive and rotating breakout groups and each workshop attendee will participate in all three groups: · Breakout Group 1: The Process of Regulatory Acceptance · Breakout Group 2: Using AOPS for Regulatory Decisions: Confidence and Criteria · Breakout Group 3: Taking Qualitative AOPs to the Next (Quantitative) Level. A poster session will be held at the Natcher Center on September 4 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Abstracts can be submitted as per the instructions on the workshop website. Junior investigators will have the opportunity to receive travel support for the workshop by submitting a competitive write-up of their work. The workshop steering committee will determine the top abstracts and the winning investigators will present a short plenary talk about his/her poster at an evening poster session/reception. Federal employees are not eligible to receive travel support from the workshop sponsors. The workshop will conclude on the afternoon of September 5 with moderated whole-group discussion and a hands-on demonstration/training of AOP Wiki/Effectopedia provided by Dr. Stephen Edwards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Please see the attached flyer for more information. I can also answer any questions you might have. Kristie Sullivan Secretary, ASCCT ksullivan@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ksullivan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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