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The Korean Society of Toxicology (KST) have spent months preparing an excellent scientific program and cultural activities for ICTXIII to be held in the beautiful city of Seoul this summer. The IUTOX leadership looks forward to welcoming you to Seoul to experience a world class meeting in a world class city, and urges you to share this information with members of your society, colleagues in your workplace, and other interested parties.
Please visit the website at www.ict2013seoul.org

The BHMF sponsored satellite symposium will be held on Sunday September 1, 2013. The symposium will integrate the latest scientific knowledge and methodology into the development of a new paradigm of human health risk assessment from hazard to exposure driven.

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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a call to renew membership of its Scientific Panel on food additives and nutrient sources added to food (ANS) and Scientific Panel on food contact materials, enzymes, flavourings and processing aids (CEF).

In line with our aim of fostering toxicology education and careers, EUROTOX is delighted to offer support for up to 5 European postgraduate students/postdoctoral fellows to participate in the 2013 GRC ‘Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity’ chaired by Jose Manautou  (August 11-16th 2013 at Proctor Academy, New Hampshire - 1 hour bus ride from Boston).
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Dear colleagues,

we cordially invite you, on behalf of Eurotox, the Swiss Society of Toxicology and the Organising Committee, to attend the EUROTOX 2013 congress at the Congress Centre in Interlaken, Switzerland from September 1^st to 4^th, 2013.

The EUROTOX Subcommittees for Registration and Education together with the Dutch Society of Toxicology are organising the 2nd International Workshop on European Registered Toxicologist (ERT): Education in Toxicology in Europe as the basis for ERT registration on 25-26 April 2013 at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

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EUROTOX has assisted it´s Specialty Section Carcinogenesis to organize the 20th EUROTOX Training and Discussion Section on the topic "Epigenetic Carcinogenicity in Risk Assessment". This meeting will be held at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany on February 14-15, 2013.

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Deadline not later than November 15, 2013

EUROTOX Fellowships 2013 for

Attendance of European Registered Toxicologist (ERT) Courses
and
Cross-Border Exchange of Teachers

ERT courses are approved for training as European Registered Toxicologist (ERT), see REGISTRATION. They offer in depth training in the major topics of toxicology according to Guidelines for Registration.

EUROTOX fellowships provide financial support and incentives for cross-border attendance of ERT courses to individuals motivated for a career in toxicology.

Please send your application to fellowships@eurotox.com

November 8, 2012, Stockholm

The theme of this workshop was to promote the establishment of more national registers in Europe. The program covered:

• the current status of the ERT system & ERT recognition worldwide,
• the ERT concept in light of the new Guidelines for Registration,
• management and administration of ERT by national Registration Committees, with examples from national registries
• a survey of current training programs under the ERT scheme in Europ  

The workshop was held by the Swedish Society of Toxicology in collaboration with EUROTOX Subcommittees for Registration and Education at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

IUTOX will provide financial support to individuals attending the thirteenth International Congress of Toxicology (ICT XIII) in Seoul, Korea from June 30-July 4, 2013. The ICT meetings occur only once every three years and offer the opportunity to learn the latest developments in toxicological science and regulation through general scientific sessions and continuing education classes.

Celebration of the life and work of Professor Gabrielle Hawksworth
(7th & 8th February 2013)
To register for the meeting please send an email to Hazel Paterson (h.a.paterson@abdn.ac.uk)
Programme of the meeting

On behalf of the Scientific Programme Committee (SCP), I invite you to submit your proposal(s) for the EUROTOX 2014 Congress that will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, September 7-10, 2014.

All submissions should be made in writing to the EUROTOX Secretary-General (secretariat@eurotox.com) by the indicated deadline. All nominations should include the requested documentation and photo.

BO HOLMSTEDT MEMORIAL FUND  in collaboration with EUROTOX offers 15 fellowships each 1500 € for European toxicologists to attend the ICTXIII congress in Seoul, Korea June 30 – July 4, 2013.

The Society of Toxicology (SOT), the Society of Toxicology Endowment Fund and AstraZeneca are very generously sponsoring ten travel fellowships for scientists to attend the SOT Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, USA (March 10-€“14, 2013).

New: The European Registered Toxicologist (ERT) Guidelines for Registration 2012

The ERT Guidelines for Registration 2012 replace the earlier Guidelines of 2011 and the "Expectations of a European Registered Toxicologist".

During the EUROTOX 2011 Paris Congress on August 29, 2011, a Workshop on “THE EUROTOX REGISTRATION/ERT SYSTEM: PRESENT POSITION AND OBJECTIVES” was held.

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(ECVAM), part of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and hosted by the Institute of Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP) is currently setting up the ECVAM Stakeholder Forum (ESTAF), bringing together ECVAM’s non-governmental stakeholders.

The International Programme for Higher Education and Research (IPHER) provides over 280 fellowships annually to scientists in developing countries such as Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico and Pakistan. 

• Short report by John Fowler
• Health and Environment Problems Facing Africa
  by Orish Ebere Orisakwe (ERT UK) (based in Nigeria)
• Problems Facing Toxicologists in Europe, Asia and Pacific Rim
  by Mumtaz Iscan (ERT Turkey)
• Shortages in people and expertise, opportunities for Risk Assessment training and experience in developing countries
  by Jyrki Liesivuori (ERT Finland)
• European guidelines for educational expectations, necessary  experience and curriculum vitae: registration of toxicologists in the European Register (ERT)
  by John Fowler (ERT UK)

The Slovak Toxicology Society SETOX, member of the Federation of European Toxicology Societies EUROTOX, in cooperation with the Institute of Experimental Pharmacology & Toxicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences invites you to publish your valuable results of experimental and clinical studies in our new international journal, Interdisciplinary Toxicology.