Tentative Scientific Program


Continual Education: Practical risk assessment in low resource settings: new tools from WHO. For further detail click here

Keynote Lecture: To be announced
                            Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol (Thailand)

Plenary Lectures:
  1. How does genetic polymorphism modify toxicity?
  2. Radiation Toxicology - Differences and Similarities between Radiation and Chemicals
  3. Natural toxins and applications


Symposium 1: Environmental Burden of Disease in Developing Countries: From Evidence to Action
  1.1 Burden of disease attributable to chemicals and air pollution: Overview of the evidence
1.2 Using evidence to prevent deaths from pesticide poisoning in rural Asia
1.3 Reducing the burden of disease from metals through regulation and policy measures: successes and possibilities
1.4 To be confirmed
Symposium 2: New Approaches to Toxicity Testing and Assessment
  2.1 Frontier of 3D-culture technologies for extrapolating toxicity in vivo
2.2 RISK 21
2.3 A novel biomarker to detect endocrine disrupting chemicals for risk assessment: "Do they have an estrogenicity or tumorigenicity in cellular models?"
2.4 Novel approaches for immunotoxicity testing
Symposium 3: Regulatory Toxicology Relating to Industry
  3.1 REACH
3.2 Pesticide regulations
3.3 Regulatory science for the safety evaluation in non-clinical research and development
3.4 Progress of regulatory toxicology and risk assessment in China
Symposium 4: Foodborne Toxins in Developing Countries
  4.1 Saxitoxins in fresh waters
4.2 Recent review of marine toxin food poisoning in Taiwan
4.3 Carcinogens formed during processing of food
Symposium 5: Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention
  5.1 Hepatocarcinogenesis chemoprevention
5.2 Metabolic dysregulation and its clinical implication in ovarian cancer
5.3 Apoptosis and cell cycle
5.4 Selected West African phytochemicals and chemoprevention
Symposium 6: Toxicological Aspects of Nanoparticles
  6.1 Roadmap for nanosafety - a mission impossible?
6.2 Size-dependent translocation pattern, chemical and biological transformation of ferric oxide nanoparticles in the central nervous system
6.3 Toxicity testing and intracellular uptake of gold nanoparticles
6.4 Nanotechnology safety
Symposium 7: New Era of Herbal Medicines and Dietary Supplements
  7.1 Kefiran reduces atherosclerosis in rabbits fed a high cholesterol diet
7.2 Effects of lignans from sesame seed on genomic and non-genomic estrogen signalling
7.3 Phytopharmaceuticals and phytonutrients: Xenohormetic perspectives
7.4 Safety re-evaluation of Chinese traditional medicine injection (CMI) in China
Symposium 8: Susceptible Populations Including Genetic Polymorphism
  8.1 Gene time environment: considerations in identifying at risk families in agricultural communities
8.2 Drug/xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme polymorphisms and clinical outcome in lung cancer
8.3 Role of drug-metabolizing enzymes in drug-induced toxicity: influence of microRNA nad immune-related factors
8.4 Genetic polymorphisms and breast cancer susceptibility in Thai women
Symposium 9: Occupational Toxicology
  9.1 Occupational exposure to mercury in an oil and gas industries
9.2 Occupational and environmental bladder cancer risk and genetic susceptibility
9.3 PAH and crystalline silica dust exposure
9.4 Rational Use of Animal Toxicology Data in setting up Occupational Exposure of Chemicals to Humans
Symposium 10: Clinical Toxicology
  10.1 Toxicovigilance – the second face of Poisons Control Centres' activity
10.2 The role of clinical toxicologist in the management of acute and/or chronic poisoning exposures: Experience of the Taiwan National Poison Control Center
10.3 Clinical toxicology in Sri Lanka: translating research into practice
10.4 Perspective in the treatment of acute poisoning in Vietnam

 

 

Tentative Invited Speakers

Professor Dr. HRH Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol (Thailand)
Herman Autrup (Denmark)
Jun Kanno (Japan)
Visith Sitprija (Thailand)
Andrew Dawson (Australia) Angela Mally (Germany)
Apinya Thiantanawat (Thailand) Bing Wang (China)
Chen-Chang Yang (Taiwan) Deng-Fwu Hwang (Taiwan)
Emmuella Corsini (Italy) Ernani Pinto (Brazil)
Elaine Faustman (USA) Herbert Desel (Germany)
Heidi Foth (Germany) Ikuo Horii (Japan)
Itsuko Ishii (Japan) Joanna Tempowski (Switzerland)
Kai Savolainen (Finland) Kevin Chipman (UK)
Klaus Golka (Germany) Koppal Suryanarayana Rao (India)
Kyung-Chul Choi (Korea) Lewis Nelson (USA)
Lewis Smith (UK) Lijie Fu (China)
Mary Gulumain (South Africa) Michael Eddleston (UK)
Mumtaz Iscan (Turkey) Olatunde Mally (Nigeria)
Quanjun Wang (China) Salmaan H. Inayat-Hussain (Malaysia)
Saul Villa-Trevino (Mexico) Sema Burgaz (Turkey)
Suleeporn Sangrajrang (Thailand) Sirirurg Songsivilai (Thailand)
Toshiaki Takesawa (Japan) Tsuyoshi Yokoi (Japan)
Wim Waetjen (Germany) Yong Sang Song (Korea)
Young Joon Surh (Korea)
More additional speakers are being invited

 

 

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