eSTAR

Emerging Systems Toxicology for the Assessment of Risk (eSTAR) Committee

Mission Statement

The mission of HESI’s Emerging Systems Toxicology for the Assessment of Risk (eSTAR) Committee is to develop and deliver innovative systems toxicology approaches for risk assessment. The committee aims to catalyze adoption of new translational and predictive tools that guide decision-making based on mechanistic understanding of toxicological response.

Working Groups

  • Carcinogenomics Project

    A manuscript was accepted describing the group’s strategy to create transcriptomic biomarkers for particular pathways leading to rat tumors. Current work is to derive and refine the biomarkers. There is also planned experimental work to see gene expression difference in wild type and knock out rats in response to reference compounds.

  • Cell Painting - Oasis Consortium

    This newly formed group is planning a proof of concept study to see if Cell Painting data (with or without transcriptomic data) can be predictive of existing rat liver data.

  • Error Corrected Sequencing

    This newly formed group is exploring the use of error corrected sequencing to detect clonal expansion of non-genotoxic carcinogens.

  • FFPE Project

    A manuscript on DNA de-modification analysis of clinical tumor samples was accepted; the project will sunset after an educational webinar.

  • miRNA Biomarkers Project

    Designed and launched a multi-site experimental program on the use of exosomal miRNAs expressed in response to renal toxicants.

  • TGx-DDI Project

    The HESI eSTAR committee is proud to announce that it was awarded a $250,000 USD grant (U01) as part of the USFDA’s Biomarker Qualification Program in June 2022. This funding will be partnered with Committee resources to support a four-site ring trial generating additional data on the TGx-DDI (TGx = toxicogenomics; DDI = DNA damage inducing) biomarker. The TgX-DDI biomarker is currently under review by the FDA as part of the FDA Biomarker Qualification program. Pending the results of this final study, the marker is anticipated to gain FDA approval for optional use as added weight of evidence in the assessment of genotoxicity. The marker has the potential to improve upon the low specificity of in vitro chromosome damage assays used in current testing and to aid drug development by providing mechanistic insights into transcriptional changes occurring in genes involved in key DNA damage pathways.

    Learn more about the use of the TGx-DDI transcriptomic biomarker for the genotoxicity assessment of data-poor chemicals here (poster presented at the 2021 EMGS Virtual Annual Meeting by Anne-Marie Fortin, University of Ottawa).

  • Use of Transcriptomic Point of Departure (POD) for Chemical Risk Assessments

    This Working Group has compiled a broad membership of experts across sectors and chemical classes to write a recently accepted manuscript on the state of the science on the use and potential applications of transcriptomic PODs. Future work will include discussion of bioinformatic methods to derive transcriptomic PODs.

Recent Highlights

 

HESI OASIS Consortium receives $1.2 million USD grant

The OASIS Consortium, a working group within HESI’s Emerging Systems Toxicology for the Assessment of Risk (eSTAR) Committee, received $1.2 million from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Bytes to Bytes Awards. These funds, supplemented with $2.5 from industry, will support laboratory work at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to investigate Cell Painting, transcriptomics, and proteomics for decision making in toxicology. These funds also support two postdocs positions at the Broad Institute. This 3-year project will explore approximately 1600 compounds across 3 cell types, organoids, and microphysiological systems.

Read the full press release here.

 

TGx-DDI Project receives FDA Funding

The HESI eSTAR committee is proud to announce that it was awarded a $250,000 USD grant (U01) as part of the USFDA’s Biomarker Qualification Program in June 2022. This funding will be partnered with Committee resources to support a four-site ring trial generating additional data on the TGx-DDI (TGx = toxicogenomics; DDI = DNA damage inducing) biomarker. The TgX-DDI biomarker is currently under review by the FDA as part of the FDA Biomarker Qualification program. Pending the results of this final study, the marker is anticipated to gain FDA approval for optional use as added weight of evidence in the assessment of genotoxicity. The marker has the potential to improve upon the low specificity of in vitro chromosome damage assays used in current testing and to aid drug development by providing mechanistic insights into transcriptional changes occurring in genes involved in key DNA damage pathways.

Committee Publications

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Urinary miRNA Biomarkers of Drug-Induced Kidney Injury and Their Site Specificity Within the Nephron

Toxicological Sciences, 2020

Chorley BN, Ellinger-Ziegelbauer H, Tackett M, Simutis FJ, ...

Drug-induced kidney injury (DIKI) is a major concern in both drug development and clinical practice. There is an unmet need for biomarkers of glomerular damage and more distal renal injury in the loop of Henle and the collecting duct (CD). A cross-laboratory program to identify and characterize urinary microRNA (miRNA) patterns ...

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A Cross-Sector Call to Improve Carcinogenicity Risk Assessment Through Use of Genomic Methodologies

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2019

Yauk CL, Harrill AH, Ellinger-Ziegelbauer H, van der Laan JW, ...

Robust genomic approaches are now available to realize improvements in efficiencies and translational relevance of cancer risk assessments for drugs and chemicals. The authors propose a path for implementation of innovative cancer risk assessment including incorporating genomic signatures to assess mechanistic relevance ...

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TGx-DDI, A Transcriptomic Biomarker for Genotoxicity Hazard Assessment of Pharmaceuticals and Environmental Chemicals

Frontiers in Big Data, 2019

Li HH, Yauk C, Chen R, Hyduke DR, Williams A, Frötschl R, ...

Genotoxicity testing is an essential component of the safety assessment paradigm required by regulatory agencies world-wide for analysis of drug candidates, and environmental and industrial chemicals. Current genotoxicity testing batteries feature a high incidence of irrelevant positive findings – particularly for in ...

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RATEmiRs: The Rat Atlas of Tissue-Specific and Enriched miRNAs Database

BMC Genomics, 2018

Bushel PR, Caiment F, Wu H, O'Lone R, Day F, Calley J, Smith A, ...
  • HESI - Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression and have been targeted as indicators of environmental/toxicologic stressors. Using the data from our deep sequencing of miRNAs in an extensive sampling of rat tissues, we developed a database called RATEmiRs for the Rat Atlas of Tissue-specific and Enriched miRNAs to allow users to ...

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Demodifying RNA for Transcriptomic Analyses of Archival Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Samples

Toxicological Sciences, 2017

Wehmas LC, Wood CE, Gagne R, Williams A, Yauk C, Gosink MM, ...

Archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue samples offer a vast but largely untapped resource for genomic research. The primary technical issues limiting use of FFPE samples are RNA yield and quality. In this study, we evaluated methods to demodify RNA highly fragmented and crosslinked by formalin fixation. ...

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Development and Validation of a High-Throughput Transcriptomic Biomarker to Address 21st Century Genetic Toxicology Needs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017

Li HH, Chen R, Hyduke DR, Williams A, Frötschl R, ...

Interpretation of positive genotoxicity findings using the current in vitro testing battery is a major challenge to industry and regulatory agencies. These tests, especially mammalian cell assays, have high sensitivity but suffer from low specificity, leading to high rates of irrelevant positive findings (i.e., positive ...

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Committee Resources

HESI Staff

Leadership Team

  • Deidre Dalmas Wilk, PhD

    GlaxoSmithKline

  • Scott Auerbach, PhD

    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

  • John Rooney, PhD

    Syngenta

Committee Events

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EUROTOX 2024

September 8, 2024 – September 11, 2024

Copenhagen, Denmark

Members of the HESI DART, eSTAR and GTTC Committees will be in attendance at EUROTOX 2024 taking place September 8-11 in Copenhagen.

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FDA’s CDER Pharmacology Toxicology Symposium

May 13, 2024

Webinar, Global

On May 13, 2024, several esteemed members from HESI’s Genetic Toxicology Technical Committee (GTTC) and Emerging Systems Toxicology for the Assessment of Risk Committee (eSTAR) delivered insightful presentations at the FDA's CDER Pharmacology Toxicology Symposium. This event, organized by the Education Subcommittee, ...

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