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Are You Attending the 2025 NDiSTEM Conference or ABRCMS?

By Checo Rorie posted 5 days ago

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If you are planning on attending the 202 5 SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference or ABRCMS , please let us know! The SOT Inclusion, Diversity, and Engagement Committee (IDEC) is looking for SOT members to help spread information and encourage interest in the science of toxicology, toxicology careers, and SOT , as well as promote student award opportunities , at these conferences.   The annual NDiSTEM Conference is a multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM event that equips, empowers, and energizes participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM. This year’s NDiSTEM Conference will take place ...

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In Memoriam: Narendra D. Lalwani

By Matthew Campen posted 5 days ago

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The Society has learned that longtime member Narendra Dhanraj Lalwani , PhD, MBA, passed away on October 11 , 2024. Dr. Lalwani was a pharmaceutical executive with experience at Pfizer, Cerenis Therapeutics, and Esperion Therapeutics .   Members are encouraged to read Dr. Lalwani’s obituary .   This blog serves as an announcement of the member’s passing. Family, friends, and colleagues are welcome to develop a more detailed tribute for publication by SOT.   #Communique:SOTNews #InMemoriam

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Regulation and Policy Update: SOT Signs Letters Supporting Funding for the NIH ECHO Program

By Cynthia Rider posted 12 days ago

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Throughout the year, SOT is approached by like-minded organizations to lend its support to varying issues and recommendations. This blog contains a summary of recent actions by SOT related to regulations and public policy.    NIH ECHO Program Funding Recommendation for FY 2026   On May 22, 2025, SOT joined more than 20 organizations in signing letters addressed to the Chairs and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies in support of funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental influences ...

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ToxSci June 2025 Issue Available

By James Luyendyk posted 12 days ago

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The June 2025 issue of Toxicological Sciences includes an In-Depth Review that shares a neuroscience perspective on the use of new approach methodologies in developmental neurotoxicity testing, while a Research Brief explores the safety of acetaminophen exposure during gestation. Also, a #ToxSpotlight article reviews a workflow for human health hazard evaluation using transcriptomic data and key characteristics-based gene sets.   In-Depth Review : “ Modeling the Developing Nervous System: A Neuroscience Perspective on the U s e of New Approach Methodologies in Developmental Neurotoxicity Testing ”   ...

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Results from SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo Location Survey

By Cynthia Rider posted 12 days ago

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Anyone who has ever attended an SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo can attest, “The meeting is large.” How large?    Hotel rooms or other lodging for more than 5,000 attendees for the better part of a week   Convention Center space for eight or nine large session rooms alongside smaller spaces for Committee and other meetings   A hall big enough to host 300+ exhibitors   A convention-style hotel nearby to host dozens of receptions and social events   This size and scope mean that SOT is sometimes limited in where and when it can host its meeting, and because of this, the ...

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Nominate SOT Members for SOT Council and Elected Committees by June 20

By Dori Germolec posted 12 days ago

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Do you know an SOT member that would make an excellent leader of the Society? Please nominate them for the upcoming 2026–2027 SOT election. The SOT Nominating Committee will review the nominations and prepare a slate of nominees for the 2026–2027 elected Officers and elected Committees in the coming months. When making your nomination, please consider the member’s work ethic and commitment to the SOT mission of “creating a safer and healthier world by advancing the science and increasing the impact of toxicology.” For service on SOT Council, candidates for the offices of Vice President-Elect, Treasurer-Elect, and two Councilors will be ...

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Write an Op-Ed in Support of Science

By Cynthia Rider posted 19 days ago

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SOT is sharing this blog on behalf of the McClintock Letters Initiative.   Federal funding for scientific research is under unprecedented threat. But how the public responds to this threat depends on the stories they hear and who they hear them from. Unfortunately, local communities rarely get to connect with the scientists whose work their tax dollars support. Direct communication is how we re-establish trust between the scientific community and the public who fund us. To increase public awareness of the value of federally funded research being done across the United States,  sign up now  to participate in the McClintock Letters Initiative ...

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Around the World of Toxicology: June 2025 Partner Activities Update

By Matthew Campen posted 19 days ago

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Each month, SOT provides an update on activities and events of importance to the toxicology community through the release of the “Around the World of Toxicology” blog. To submit an event, opportunity, or information for consideration for inclusion in the monthly “Around the World of Toxicology” blog, complete the special submission form for “Around the World of Toxicology” items . Please note that only activities by societies and professional associations (i.e., nonprofits) will be considered. If you are an organization or company seeking to promote an event, please submit your activity to the SOT “ Calendar of Events .”     ...

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Webinar: Applying SOT Mentorship Tools for Regional Chapter Meetings

By Gina Hilton posted 26 days ago

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The SOT Career Advancement, Mentoring, and Networking (CAMAN) Committee is offering a webinar “Applying SOT Mentorship Tools for Regional Chapter Meetings” June 25 at 1:00 pm (US EDT, UTC -4) to focus on tools that facilitate mentoring. Although ce ntered on SOT Regional Chapter activities, anyone interested in strengthening mentoring is invited to participate .   SOT has 18 R egional C hapters that span across the United States. R egional Chapters are a great resource for toxicologists and related communities to stay connected on a local level, engaging in regional topics of interest, highlighting ...

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CEd-Tox Library Adds 14 New Courses!

By Kelly Almond-Abbate posted 26 days ago

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T he  SOT CEd-Tox library contains an expansive selection of over 100 courses spanning the entire spectrum of toxicology . Whether you’re diving into new topics, refreshing your memory on familiar ones, or fulfilling your C ontinuing E ducation (CE) credit hour requirements,  the CEd-Tox library is your go-to solution for your learning journey.   We ’ re thrilled to announce that 14 new CE courses, originally presented and recorded during the 202 5 SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo , have been added to the  CEd-Tox course library ! The 202 5 courses cover topics such as NAMs, ...

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GIFT Award Internship Begins

By Kimberly Zaccaria posted 05-15-2025

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The SOT Education and Experiential Opportunities Committee encourages outstanding doctoral students to pursue an internship in toxicology that advances their professional and scientific development. To assist with this pursuit, Graduate Intern Fellowship in Toxicology (GIFT) Award re cipients receive up to $3,000 each to supplement available funds . Internships must last for at least six consecutive weeks between May and August 2025.  GIFT Awards are made possible via the SOT Endowment James Bond-Michele Medinsky Graduate Student Development Fund. This week, Landon Butler , a current student at Oklahoma State University ...

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Expand Your Mentoring Repertoire with the CIMER Advancing Mentorship Program

By Vicki Sutherland posted 05-15-2025

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The SOT Career Advancement, Mentoring, and Networking (CAM A N) Committee has among its charges sharing mentoring resources with the SOT community . One group that provides extensive mentoring curricula and support and assessment resources, as well as training , is t he Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) , based at the University of Wisconsin. The Center offer s CIMER ’ s Advancing Mentorship Program (CAMP) for individuals actively mentoring graduate students, postdocs, and/or junior STEM faculty. Participants engage in evidence-based curricula ...

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2025 Annual Meeting Report: Finding Work-Life-Self Balance

By Grace Kuan posted 05-15-2025

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In a Tiny Tox Talk titled “ The Active Practice of Work-Life-Self Balance , ” Kelly Salinas and Kimberly Zaccaria from SRC, Inc. discussed the active practice of achieving and maintaining balance between work, personal life, and oneself.   Work- L ife balance may be one of the most important things someone can consider in making career decisions. In a 2003 Gallup survey presented during this Tiny Tox Talk, 62% of respondents indicated “greater work-life balance and better personal well - being” as the most important attribute that employees want in their next job.    Kelly and Kimberly discussed how there ...

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2025 Annual Meeting Report: NAMs Hit the Bullseye in DART Assessments

By Rebecca Somach posted 05-15-2025

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In 2007 , the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine created a report titled “Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy . ” The report advocates for developing in vitro , ex vivo , or in silico technologies to reduce animal testing while still providing adequate toxicity evaluation. Since then , there has been a push to develop new technologies to achieve this reality. New a pproach m ethodologies ( NAMs ) have become an exciting newer area of toxicology that has really taken off. Their popularity isn’t surprising — NAMs take less time to generate data ...

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2025 Annual Meeting Report: N-Nitrosamines in Water and in Drugs: Mechanistic Insight into Early Age Susceptibility and Human Cancer Risk

By Margaret Whittaker posted 05-15-2025

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Potential human cancer risk posed by N-nitrosamine s has been recognized for decades based on positive cancer studies in almost 40 animal species. Despite th e widespread recognition of potential cancer risk from this class of chemical s , there is limited mechanistic insight into cellular responses and sequelae associated with nitrosamine exposure. A 2025 S ymposium Session titled “ N-Nitrosamines in Water and in Drugs: Occurrence, Detection, Biological Effects, and Regulation ” highlighted research designed to investigate molecular and cellular responses to nitrosamine exposure .      Work from the Massachusetts ...

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2025 Annual Meeting Report: Navigating the Safety Landscape of Emerging Consumer Products

By Colleen McLoughlin posted 05-15-2025

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As innovation in consumer products accelerates, so do the challenges in ensuring their safety. With rapidly emerging innovations in cosmetics, medical devices, electronics, and beyond, toxicologists must adapt existing safety evaluation frameworks to keep pace with new products and ones that blur traditional category lines. At the 2025 SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo , the Continuing Education course “ Roadmap for Safety Evaluation of Emerging Consumer Products: Application and Adaptation of Existing Practices ” provided a deep dive into these challenges and opportunities.   Bridging Traditional and Emerging Risk Assessment Approaches ...

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A Courtesy for Members with Paused EHP Reviews

By Jeffrey Peters posted 05-08-2025

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Toxicological Sciences  ( ToxSci ) has learned of the pause in publication of  Environmental Health Perspectives  ( EHP ).  EHP  is a top - tier journal with a robust peer - review process. Given the pause, we would like to offer our colleagues who had manuscripts pending with  EHP  an opportunity to continue the review process, rather than starting over.   If you have a manuscript that fits within the  broad scope  of  ToxSci   that was pending revision or decision after as least one round of peer review at  EHP , please consider  submitting to  ToxSci . ...

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Mehendale Welcome Award Accepting Applications to Support International Graduate Students

By Kimberly Zaccaria posted 05-08-2025

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The SOT Education and Experiential Opportunities Committee (E E OC ) encourages newly enrolled graduate students to apply for the Mehendale Welcome Awar d . This award is made possible by the Rekha and Harihara Mehendale Welcome Award Fund for International Graduate Students , an E ndowment F und established with SOT. The goal of the Mehendale Welcome Award is to financially assist newly enrolled international graduate students while they are adjusting to a new country (e.g., US). Recipients should be enrolled in a biomedical scientific research program, with preference to those enrolled in a toxicology program ...

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Undergraduate Educator’s Survey and Webinar

By Tracie Baker posted 05-08-2025

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The SOT Education and Experiential Opportunities Committee (EEOC) is seeking feedbac k from u ndergraduate educators. Your feedback wi ll guide EEOC as it evaluates existing and determines new programming for educators. We appreciate you r insights and feedback.   Use the link or QR code to take the survey by June 9! EEOC also invite s undergraduate educators to view a webinar presented by Eva Oberdörster , PhD . This webinar is titled “ Embracing Our Student’s Technologies: From AI to Specs ” and explore s the implementation of Specifications Grading (Specs Grading) ...

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2025 Annual Meeting Report: Novel and Current Risk Management Approaches to Reduce the Presence of Nonessential Heavy Metals in Food

By Jossie Garthoff posted 05-08-2025

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During the 2025 Informational Session “ Nonessential Heavy Metals in Food: How Low Should We Go? ,” speakers Brinda Mahadevan, Wallace Hayes, B renna Flannery , and P eter Pressman shared their insights about the ubiquitous presence of h eavy m etals in our environment impacting our food chain, covering the related health considerations along with exciting new and current risk management approaches to reduce dietary exposure .   H umans require varying amounts of essential metals, such as m anganese , m agnesium, i ron, c opper, c hromium, m olybdenum, z inc, and c obalt ...

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