By Dana C. Dolinoy,Chair, GRC on Mechanistic Toxicology: The Path Forward
A Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity will be held August 9–14, 2015, at Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire. The conference will be preceded for the second time by the trainee led and organized Gordon Research Seminar, August 8–9, 2015. The Mechanisms GRC has been held biennially since 1956, and for 2015, we have put together a cutting-edge program featuring the latest mechanistic toxicology research spanning environmental, pharmaceutical, and industrial sciences. The topic of the 2015 GRC is “Mechanistic Toxicology: The Path Forward” and will focus on translating mechanistic toxicology research to advance toxicity testing, product development, and risk decision making.
The talks will highlight several areas of mechanistic toxicology including microphysiological organ chip models, computational toxicology modeling, transgenerational toxicology and risk assessment, epigenetics, systems pharmacology, and alternative in vivo models for toxicological risk assessment.
Our goal is to help toxicologists remain at the forefront of mechanistic research and enable them to position their research and methods development to remain at the cutting-edge of product safety and toxicological evaluation. Funding is available for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are presenting outstanding posters. A special committee will select some abstracts/posters for short oral talks. These "late-breaking" oral sessions provide increased participation to trainees and young scientists to share their work with an audience of experts. Full program details are available on the conference website as well as the application to attend this conference.
The Society of Toxicology (SOT) is a sponsor of this conference and has been a sponsor of other Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity GRCs. To achieve the SOT mission of "creating a safer and healthier world by advancing the science of toxicology," the Society provides sponsorship and/or endorsement to toxicology-related meetings sponsored by other not-for-profit organizations.