Where to meet us

This year’s Third conference on PExA, Covid-19 and diseases affecting small airways will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from January 26 to 27, 2023. Prof. Dr. Jens Hohlfeld from Fraunhofer ITEM will give a keynote lecture.

This training course will introduce the participants to 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 training will also outline the basic principles of physiologically based kinetic (PBK) modeling, whereas the application of in-silico approaches in ecotoxicology will not be addressed in this course.

This e-learning package will introduce participants to the main principles of different structure-based in-silico approaches for estimation of mainly human health toxicological endpoints. The application of in-silico approaches in ecotoxicology will not be addressed in this course.

The focus of this course is on giving an overview of EFSA´s principles and processes for risk assessment of non-applicant mandates elucidating the different steps by recent and educational examples.

Risk-benefit assessment (RBA) of foods is a decision-support tool that assesses the combined beneficial and adverse health effects of foods, diets or food components. It integrates knowledge on nutrition, toxicology, microbiology, and human epidemiology for comprehensive health impact assessments. RBA is thus useful to inform food safety policies or to provide dietary advice based on an integration of the available scientific knowledge. This e-learning provides an introduction to risk-benefit assessment of foods, with an emphasis on methods to quantify the human health impact of food intake.

As part of EFSA’s commitment to transparency, identifying and characterizing uncertainties and explaining their implications for assessment conclusions is an important element of EFSA’s risk assessment process. The EFSA guidance on uncertainty analysis in scientific assessments brings more clarity on how it can be performed in a structured, transparent and unambiguous way. This online tutorial will enhance the understanding and enable the practical implementation of the guidance document on uncertainty analysis in scientific assessments.

In 2023, alternative methods to animal testing will again be at the focus of a one-day workshop at Fraunhofer ITEM in Hannover organized by the Fraunhofer Cluster Immune-Mediated Diseases CIMD. Please save the date: June 21, 2023. Apart from expert talks on in-vitro and ex-vivo models for toxicology, pharmacology and infection research, there will be plenty of time for scientific exchange.

On June 22 and 23, 2023, the 21st Fraunhofer Seminar "Models of Lung Disease" will be held in Hannover, Germany. For the 21st time already, this workshop offers experts from academia and industry an excellent platform to discuss the latest topics and questions in lung research. We would be pleased to welcome you at another “summer edition” of this workshop. Please save the date!