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Coordination of projects on new approaches to replace current repeated dose systemic toxicity testing of cosmetics and chemicals (COACH)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
"SEURAT is a European research initiative with the long-term goal of achieving “Safety Evaluation Ultimately Replacing Animal Testing”.In the first phase of the SEURAT initiative, the European Commission’s FP7 HEALTH programme and the European Cosmetics Association (COLIPA) support a cluster of six research projects representing the building blocks of a common strategy towards the development of s ...
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Detection of endpoints and biomarkers of repeated dose toxicity using in vitro systems (DETECTIVE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
"Assessment of repeated dose toxicity is a standard requirement in human safety evaluation and relies on animal testing as no alternatives are currently accepted for regulatory purposes. An integrated research strategy for the replacement of animal tests needs to comprise the development of biomarkers of long-term toxicity in human target cells. To this aim, the DETECTIVE project will set up a scr ...
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Stem Cells for Relevant Efficient Extended and Normalized Toxicology (SCR&TOX)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
In the development of products for use by humans it is vital to identify compounds with toxic properties at an early stage of their development, to avoid spending time and resource on unsuitable and potentially unsafe candidate products. Human pluripotent stem cell lines offer a unique opportunity to develop a wide variety of human cell-based test systems because they may be expanded indefinitely ...
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A pan-European infrastructure for quality in nanomaterials safety testing (QUALITYNANO)
Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,
Nanoscale objects interact with living organisms in a fundamentally new manner, ensuring that a fruitful marriage of nanotechnology and biology will long outlast short term imperatives. Therefore, investment in an infrastructure to drive scientific knowledge of the highest quality will have both immediate benefits of supporting the safety assessment of legacy nanomaterials, as well as pointing tow ...
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Rationally Designed Aquatic Receptors integrated in label-free biosensor platforms for remote surveillance of toxins and pollutants (RADAR)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
RADAR is a 7-member consortium that aims to develop a robust, sensitive, and versatile label-free, biosensor platform for spot measurements and on-line monitoring of toxins and pollutants in food production processes and in the aquatic environment.Specificity towards chemical pollutants and toxins is achieved by using recombinant receptors (namely the estrogen receptor and the aryl hydrocarbon rec ...
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Biosensor nanoarrays for environmental monitoring (BIOMONAR)
Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,
BIOMONAR develops multiplexed nanoarray biosensors for environmental targets, i.e. pollutants and pathogens. The innovative approach engineers three sensor platforms (surface, liposomal, living cell) which exploit a panel of periplasmic binding proteins (PBPs) as the common selective element. The nanoarrays are integrated into a microfluidics system for in-situ monitoring. The strategy allows for ...
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On the reduction of health effects from combined exposure to indoor air pollutants in modern offices (OFFICAIR)
Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,
"Modern offices usually have several sorts of electronic equipment and other dominant heat sources indoors, making them almost unaffected by local climatic conditions. Air conditioning and mechanical ventilation coupled with the often excessive levels of artificial lighting, require high levels of energy. At the European Union (EU) level, the Directive 91/2002, (EPBD), is a major step towards rati ...
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