The 20th Annual Cefic-LRI (Long-Range Research Initiative) Programme workshop will take place on 14 and 15 November 2018, at Le Plaza Hotel, in Brussels. To mark the 20th anniversary of the LRI programme this milestone event will take the theme “20 Years of LRI Advancing Risk Assessment”.
For the past two decades, LRI has fostered innovative research to improve science-based decision-making, built inter-disciplinary and international scientific networks, and engaged with partners around the world to link research to chemical risk assessment practice and policy.
Since its creation in 1999, LRI has funded more than 200 projects to address public and stakeholder concerns about chemical risk both to human health and the environment. It has become a unique source of knowledge and tools, and has established itself as a leader in chemical safety assessment research.
Gala event
The 20th anniversary event commences on the evening of November 14 with an invited poster session and a networking cocktail, followed by a Red Carpet Gala Dinner for the 2018 LRI Innovative Science Award ceremony.
The award presentation session will be chaired by a former winner, Dr. Roger Godschalk from Maastricht University and will feature a presentation on the results of the 2017 award “DOREMI: DOse REsponse to MIxtures” by Dr Spyros Karakitsios (pictured above) of the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, as well as the presentation of the 2018 LRI Innovative Science Award.
All day workshop
On Thursday, 15 November, the main workshop will feature presentations and posters on the most recent LRI research projects.
An initial plenary presentation will review LRI achievements over the past 20 years and look forward to future challenges with Dr Heli Hollnagel of Dow, Chair of the Cefic LRI Issue Team. This will be followed by two plenary sessions before and after lunch.
The first session will cover LRI projects impact with a focus on environmental effects and fate, methodology and prediction, industrial exposure assessment, systemic repeated dose toxicity and developmental toxicity. The second session will feature projects working on exposure and
predictive toxicity.
A draft workshop programme is available here and you can register via this link. The Cefic-LRI workshop is a must-attend event for the scientific community and an excellent networking opportunity for policymakers.Registration to this event is free.
More information
For enquiries related to the workshop, please contact Dr. Bruno Hubesch, LRI Programme Consultant or Dr. Océane Albert, LRI Programme Manager.
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