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This year's annual congress of the French Society of Toxicology ("Société Française de Toxicologie", SFT in short) will be held in Paris from November 4 to 5. The aim of SFT is to bring together experts from the various areas of toxicology in order to facilitate and promote the exchange of new findings. The focus of this year's SFT Congress is on new models, new approaches, and new challenges in toxicological risk assessment. Fraunhofer ITEM scientist Tanja Hansen will contribute an oral presentation entitled "New concepts in inhalation toxicology: the in-vitro approach".

At the 5th Conference of Applied Hygiene, Microbiology and Virology, taking place in Hamburg (Germany) from November 7 to 8, 2019, Fraunhofer ITEM scientists Ariane Zwintscher and Dr. Franziska Breuer will contribute two oral presentations dedicated to toxicological issues in biocidal product registration (BPR). Their presentations entitled "Minor and major consequences as a result of a formulation change" (Franziska Breuer) and "How to handle the new requirement to perform ED assessments" (Ariane Zwintscher) will be part of Session B: Practical Experiences during Biocidal Product Registration, on Thursday, November 7.

This year‘s BIO-Europe® will be held in Hamburg (Germany) from November 11 to 13. As Europe's largest life science partnering conference, BIO-Europe® offers countless opportunities to engage with global life science partners: with representatives from the biotech, pharmaceutical, and finance sectors.

This training course will introduce the participants to three different in-silico approaches for estimation of human health toxicological endpoints, namely QSAR models, read-across, and the TTC (threshold of toxicological concern) concept. The application of in-silico approaches in ecotoxicology will not be addressed in this course.

Fraunhofer ITEM will participate in the Cefic-LRI workshop in Brussels with two contributions: Dr. Monika Batke will give an oral presentation on the topic ”Incorporation of repeated-dose study information for non-DNA-reactive carcinogens into CPDB database and analysis of threshold values“ and Dr. Katharina Schwarz will present a poster about the parameterization of PBPK models for inhalation exposure.

This training course will give guidance to participants on how to evaluate study data on genotoxicity and how to integrate corresponding testing results in risk assessment.