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New Approaches to Toxicity Testing: The New National Academy of Sciences Report

July 10, 2007


On this call we discussed the new report from the National Research Council -- Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy.

Call Moderator:  Steve Heilig, MPH, Director of Public Health and Education for CHE and the San Francisco Medical Society

Science Update:  Pete Myers, PhD, CEO, Environmental Health Sciences 

Featured Presenters:

  • Dr. Gina Solomon, Senior Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Dr. Lauren Zeise, Chief of Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
  • Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Director, UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)

 

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