HESI Annual Meetings
The 2020 HESI Annual Meeting will be moving to a virtual meeting format in response to COVID-19.
Please continue to hold 9-10 June 2020 on your calendars as we pursue this alternate format. We anticipate live online presentations to take place on these dates and will provide updates on timing and content as they become available.
HESI Annual Meeting
9-10 June 2020
Kimpton DeWitt Hotel
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tuesday 9 June 2020
| 9:00 AM | Welcome & Meeting Goals |
| Dr. Martin van den Berg, Utrecht University, Incoming HESI Chair of Board | |
| 9:10 AM | Into the New Decade: Key 2020 Achievements for HESI |
| Dr. Syril Pettit, HESI Executive Director | |
| 9:30 AM | HESI CITE Lecture: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Practice of Environmental Health Protection Sciences |
| Prof. Nic Bury, University of Suffolk | |
| 10:15 AM | HESI CITE Lecture: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Practice of Human Health Protection Sciences |
| Prof. Jackie Hunter, BenevolentAI | |
| 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:20 AM | Panel Discussion: What are the greatest hurdles to implementing AI approaches to improve human and environmental health protection? |
| Panelists pending | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:15 PM | Making the 3Rs Routine, Robust, and Reproducible for Health Protection Sciences |
| HESI Evaluation Framework for New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for Human Health Safety Assessment | |
| Dr. Douglas Wolf, Syngenta | |
| HESI Botanical Safety Consortium: Towards Non-Animal Methods for Botanical Assessment | |
| Dr. Stefan Gafner, American Botanical Council | |
| In Vitro Methods for Cell Therapy Safety Evaluation | |
| Speaker pending | |
| Regulatory Perspectives on Building Confidence in New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) | |
| Speaker pending | |
| 3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:50 PM | 3Rs Keynote Lecture: Organ Chip Technologies, Opportunities, and Road Maps to the Future |
| Dr. Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij, Institute for Human Organ and Disease Model Technologies | |
| 4:30 PM | New Science at HESI: Proposals for New Programs |
| Topics pending | |
| Dinner Reception – Level Eleven, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Wednesday 10 June 2020
| 9:00 AM | Welcome & Introductions |
| 9:15 AM | Case Studies in Innovating Toxicology and Safety Assessment |
| Investigating Chemical-Microbiome Interactions in Zebrafish | |
| Dr. Tamara Tal, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | |
| EU Horizon 2020 Program on Environmental Chemicals and Reproductive Health | |
| Dr. Marjorie van Duursen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | |
| Break | |
| Species Differences in Xenobiotic Metabolism | |
| Prof. Mayumi Ishizuka, Hokkaido University, Japan | |
| Using the HESI RISK21 Framework to Prioritize Chemical Risk Assessment at a Brazilian Regulatory Agency | |
| Speaker pending | |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | Featured Speaker: Current and Prospective Use of Adverse Outcome Pathways in Regulatory Decision-Making |
| Dr. Bob Diderich, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | |
| 2:30 PM | Featured Speaker: What is Needed for the Training of the Next Generation of Scientists to Support Safety Science? |
| Speaker pending | |
| 3:10 PM | Panel Discussion: What is needed for the training of the next generation of scientists to support safety science (in the regulatory, research, and industrial settings)? |
| Moderator: Prof. Marc Pallardy, University of Paris-Sud | |
| Panelists pending | |
| 3:45 PM | Closing Remarks & Awards |
| 4:00 PM | Adjourn |
Hotel Information
Please click here to book
your accommodation at the
Kimpton DeWitt Hotel.
Registration
Please click here to register for the 2020 HESI Annual Meeting.
Contact
Please email Ms. Cyndi Nobles (cnobles@hesiglobal.org) for additional information.
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