This seminar will be held on 22.08.2023 at 5:00 p.m. online via Zoom. Speaker: Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD, Professor & Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Description:
The 2007 NAS report on Toxicity Testing for the 21st Century was a watershed moment for toxicology. Since then, the discussion is no longer whether to change but how and how fast? With knowledge in the life sciences doubling every 3-4 years, we now have sixteen times more understanding and a number of disruptive technologies have evolved which were not anticipated in the report, such as Microphysiological Systems (MPS) and Machine Learning, also known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). To embrace these developments and move toxicology to a more wholistic and integrated paradigm, the Basic Research Office of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)) hosted a Future Directions workshop Advancing the Next Scientific Revolution in Toxicology in April 2022 at the Basic Research Innovation Collaboration Center (BRICC). Scientific, technical experts, and agency observers developed a report, laying out how recent developments can be embraced and set the direction of “Toxicology for the 21st Century 2.0” in the next decades.
Computational approaches, especially AI, play a key role in e.g., predictive toxicology, computational modeling of in vitro tests, and many more. The EU project ONTOX is working toward the implementation of some of these goals.
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