16:00 - 17:30
| Nanosafety and Nanobiotechnology II |
SYNOPSIS
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| TT.III.B.1 |
Flemming CASSEE CV
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherland
Metrics that affect the safety of nanomaterials: implications for design abst
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| TT.III.B.2 |
Elisa MOSCHINI CV
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - University of Milano-Bicocca
Advanced in vitro models for nanotoxicology abst
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| TT.III.B.3 |
Silvana FIORITO CV
CNR - Sapienza University of Rome
Effects of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes in vitro and in vivo abst
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| TT.III.B.4 |
Valentina LACCONI CV
University of Rome Tor Vergata
In vitro models for the study of reproductive toxicity of engineered nanomaterials abst
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| TT.III.B.5 |
Francesco CUBADDA CV
National Institute of Health, Rome
Oral toxicity of nanomaterials and the effect of human gastrointestinal digestion on key hazard-related properties abst
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Chairs: Paride MANTECCA, University of Milano-Bicocca
& Luisa CAMPAGNOLO, University of Rome Tor Vergata
In collaboration with: University of Milano Bicocca - Research Center POLARIS, University of Insubria, University of Rome Tor-Vergata, Tiesselab, Gilson |
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SYNOPSIS
The environmental and health safety is a great deal for the applied research of the new century and represents a key issue for the sustainable development of nanotechnologies. It can moreover speed up the access to the market for new nano-enabled products and facilitate the consumer acceptability.
Up to now a lot of nanotoxicological data has been obtained for several nanomaterials already on the market or under development, allowing the researchers to understand the principles governing the biological responses to the high number of physico-chemical variables characterizing the nanostructures. This also highlighted the importance to design new nanomaterials taking into account the potential toxicity deriving from the different synthetic routes and final structure achieved, according to the well-recognized “safe-by-design” principle. The proposed session will focus on the studies of the nano-bio-interactions applied to the characterization of the safety-related aspects of commercially relevant nanomaterials. It finally may help in improving the bio-efficacy of marketable nano-products, lowering in parallel their biological hazard. During the session the recent advances in the safety regulations and methods for nanotechnologies as well as the studies on the nanotoxicological aspects of engineered nanomaterials will be also covered.
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