HESI Annual Meetings

HESI Annual Meeting


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
	Dr. 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
	Speaker pending
	In Vitro Methods for Cell Therapy Safety Evaluation
	Speaker pending
	Regulatory Perspectives on Building Confidence in New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)
	Speaker pending
3:15 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Organ Chip Models and 3Rs
	Speaker pending
4:00 PM	New Science at HESI: Proposals for New Programs
	Topics pending
	Dinner Reception – Level Eleven, Amsterdam, Netherlands


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
	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
	Innovative Drug Delivery Mechanisms to Reduce Toxicity via Non-Invasive Therapy Drug Delivery Mechanisms
	Speaker pending
12:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Featured Speaker: Current and Prospective Use of Adverse Outcome Pathways in Regulatory Decision-Making
	Speaker pending
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