Officials of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Region 1 are sponsoring a Conference entitled, “The Essential Role of Toxicology in Designing Safer Chemicals.” The conference will be held Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at the University of Connecticut with the goal of exploring opportunities for linkage and integration in order to strengthen sustainability of molecular design and achieve greater impact in the implementation of the principles of green chemistry across the scientific community.
Speakers include Society of Toxicology members Thomas Hartung, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Frederick Guengerich, of Vanderbilt University. Organizers hope the conference will result in development of a plan of action to further integrate and institutionalize the relationship between toxicology and green chemistry in education, research, and industry. For more information go to, the US EPA website.