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8 Jun - 9 Jun 2017, Park Inn by Radisson Köln City West, Cologne/Germany
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Get-Together on Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Will you arrive on Wednesday?
Come to the hotel bar at 8 p.m. and meet other participants and experts in a relaxed atmosphere.
8.00 Registration and coffee
8.30 Welcome address by the Akademie Fresenius and introduction by the Chair
Tina Mehta, Dow AgroSciences/ECPA Toxicology Expert Group (TEG), United Kingdom
Philip Marx-Stölting, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany
Stephanie Melching-Kollmuss, BASF/ ECPA Working Group on Cumulative Risk Assessment, Germany
Veerle Vanheusden, European Commission, Belgium
9.55 Panel discussion
10.25 Coffee break
Alistair Morriss, Dow AgroSciences, United Kingdom
Susanne Hougaard Bennekou, Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Denmark
11.45 Panel discussion
12.15 Lunch
Christer Hogstrand, King‘s College London/EFSA MixRisk Working Group, United Kingdom
Representative of EFSA, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Italy
14.05 Short break
Helen Clayton / Peter Korytar, European Commission, Belgium
Mick Hamer, Syngenta, United Kingdom
15.25 Panel discussion
15.55 Coffee break
Leo Posthuma, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
Simon Gutierrez, European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Finland
Anja Kehrer, Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
17.40 Panel discussion
18.10 End of the first day
19.10 Departure time for the evening event
At the end of the first conference day, Akademie Fresenius invites you to a leisurely evening in Cologne. After a short city walking tour, we will have dinner at a traditional brewpub with local beer. Don‘t miss out on this opportunity!
8.30 Welcome address by the Chair
Martin Wilks, Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, Switzerland
Jacob van Klaveren, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
Bette Meek, University of Ottawa, Canada
Åke Bergman, Swedish Toxicology Sciences Research Center/Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Erik Lebret, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
10.20 Panel discussion
10.50 Coffee break
Alan R. Boobis, Imperial College London, Division of Medicine, United Kingdom
Eeva Leinala, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France
Stephanie Bopp, EU Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy
12.35 Panel discussion
13.05 Final remarks
13.35 Lunch and end of the conference
Name
Company
Åke Bergman
Swedish Toxicology Sciences Research Center / Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Åke Bergman is Executive Director of Swetox Research Center and the Head of Unit of Toxicology Sciences at Karolinska Institutet. He has also served as Professor for Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University since 1993 and as Guest Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai since 2012. Åke has also served at numerous national and international expert groups and review panels, such as the UNEP/WHO program panel for EDs.
mehrwenigerAlan R. Boobis
Imperial College London, Division of Medicine, United Kingdom
Alan R. Boobis is Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology at Imperial College London and Director of the Toxicology Unit (supported by Public Health England and the Department of Health). He has been a member of the EFSA PPR Panel and the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain. He is chair/member of the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues, chair/member of the Joint FAO/ WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (residues of veterinary drugs) and chair of the UK Committee on Toxicity.
mehrwenigerStephanie Bopp
European Commission JRC, Italy
Stephanie Bopp (PhD) works as Scientific Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), where she is leading the activities on the assessment of chemical mixtures. Having collected much experience whilst working for several other organisations in the area of ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry, in her last role before the JRC, she worked for EFSA, where her focus was on pesticide risk assessment.
mehrwenigerHelen Clayton
European Commission, Belgium
Helen Clayton has been a Policy Officer in DG ENV for 8 1/2 years. Since 2010 she is responsible for implementing the Water Framework Directive within the DG’s ‘Water unit’. Her focus is chemical pollutants in surface waters. She is leading ENV's work with DG SANTE on the Commission's strategic approach to pharmaceuticals in the environment. A general scientist by training with a PhD in plant biochemistry she has also worked as a Patent Examiner, and in a science-to-policy role for the UK research councils.
mehrwenigerSimon Gutierrez
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Finland
Simon Gutierrez is an Ecotoxicologist by training with more than 10 years of experience in the field of ecotoxicology, environmental risk assessment and regulatory issues. He has a wide experience in biocides both in the public and private sector. Simon is currently Team Leader of the environmental team in the biocides unit in ECHA and is Deputy-Chair of the Environmental Working Group of the BPC at ECHA.
mehrwenigerMick Hamer
Syngenta, United Kingdom
Mick Hamer has almost 40 years’ experience working for Syngenta and its legacy companies in the field of ecotoxicology, environmental fate and risk assessment. He is member of the CEFIC Mixtures industry ad-hoc team (MIAT) and Organizer of the 2015 SETAC Pellston workshop on simplifying environmental mixtures.
mehrwenigerChrister Hogstrand
King's College London, United Kingdom
Christer Hogstrand is a Professor at the Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences Division at King’s college London. Besides this role, he is an Expert for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and currently a member on its Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain. He has been involved in 12 EFSA working groups and is presently chairing three, including its working group on Chemical Mixtures.
mehrwenigerSusanne Hougaard Bennekou
Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Denmark
Susanne Hougaard Bennekou is a Regulatory Toxicologist in the Pesticide Division of the Danish EPA. She is Vice-Chair of EFSA’s PPR panel and has been involved in developing methodologies for Cumulative Risk Assessment of pesticides. Currently, she is involved in developing the EFSA guidance document for harmonisation of risk assessment methodologies for human health and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals. She is also involved in the H2020 supported project “EU-ToxRisk”, which aims at driving mechanism-based toxicity testing and risk assessment.
mehrwenigerAnja Kehrer
Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Anja Kehrer works as a Scientific Officer within the field of environmental risk assessment of biocides at the German Environment Agency (UBA), where she is responsible for the environmental risk assessment of biocidal active substances and products in the context of the directive 98/8/EC and regulation 528/2012. During her diploma- and PhD-thesis she focused on ecotoxicology and investigated mixtures of chemicals.
mehrwenigerErik Lebret
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
Erik Lebret is Chief Science Officer for "integrated risk assessment" at RIVM. In addition, as Endowed Professor, he also works for the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University on Environmental Health Impact Assessment. Besides his role at RIVM he regularly participates in expert and advisory committees. Currently he is a member of management board of the European Biomonitoring initiative HBM4EU, where his work is dedicated to chemical mixtures.
mehrwenigerEeva Leinala
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France
Eeva Leinala (PhD) is a Principal Administrator in the Environment Health and Safety Division of the OECD, where she advances projects related to risk assessment and risk reduction of chemicals. She is the Principal Administrator for both the Hazard Assessment Programme and the Risk Reduction Programme. Prior to the OECD she worked in the area of chemical risk assessment at Health Canada for 12 years.
mehrwenigerBette Meek
University of Ottawa, Canada
Bette Meek has a background in toxicology and is currently the Associate Director of Chemical Risk Assessment at the McLaughlin Centre for Risk Science, University of Ottawa. She previously managed several chemical risk assessment programs within Health Canada.
mehrwenigerTina Mehta
Dow AgroSciences, United Kingdom
Tina Mehta has worked for Dow AgroSciences for 15 years in Human Health Assessment and is currently the EMEA/APAC Toxicology/ Risk Assessment Leader. She is also the EU Leader for dietary risk assessment and global focal point for cumulative risk assessment. She is a member of ECPA Toxicology Expert Group (TEG) and Joint-Toxicology, Residue ad hoc Group (J-TRAG). Tina is also leading industry efforts on implementation of agrochemical exposure-driven assessments.
mehrwenigerStephanie Melching-Kollmuss
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), Belgium
Stephanie Melching-Kollmuss has been working as European and Global Regulatory Toxicologist for plant protection products at BASF since 2006. Her main research interest is combined toxicity assessment and she continues to be involved in ECETOC and CEFIC LRI projects. She is a member of ECPA working groups on cumulative risk assessment.
mehrwenigerAlistair Morriss
Dow AgroSciences, United Kingdom
Alistair Morriss is a Risk Assessor, in the Human Health Assessment team at Dow AgroSciences in the UK since 2010. Prior to this he worked in contract research organisations for 8 years specialising in operator exposure studies as well as residue and environmental fate studies. He is Chairman of the ECPA OBEEG and a member of the CLI OPEX group.
mehrwenigerLeo Posthuma
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) / Radboud University, The Netherlands
Leo Posthuma is a Senior Scientist at RIVM’s Centre for Sustainability, Environment and Health and a Registered EUROTOX Toxicologist. Since 2016 he has been a Professor for “Sustainability and Environmental Risks” at Radboud University Nijmegen. His previous roles at RIVM included Head, Dpt. of Soils and Sediments and Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment.
mehrwenigerVeerle Vanheusden
European Commission, Belgium
Veerle Vanheusden is a Policy Officer for “Pesticides and Biocides” in DG SANTE of the European Commission. Her areas of activity include legislation for cumulative risk assessment of pesticides residues, pesticides residues monitoring, reviewing the existing maximum residue levels and the coordination of the European reference laboratories for pesticides. She has previously worked in the private pharmaceutical sector (organic chemistry and analytical chemistry).
mehrwenigerMartin Wilks
University of Basel,Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, Switzerland
Martin Wilks is a Medical Toxicologist and risk assessment expert with more than 25 years of experience in academia, industry and the health service. He is Director of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT) and Adjunct Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva. He is a EUROTOX Registered Toxicologist, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and President-elect of the European Associations of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.
mehrwenigerJacob van Klaveren
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
Jacob van Klaveren has worked for RIVM as Senior Scientific Advisor since 2010. He coordinated the EU funded ACROPOLIS project and is currently in charge of coordinating the EFSA-RIVM partnership on the follow-up ACROPOLIS and the H2020 EuroMix project, which is a new strategy for mixture testing.” Since 2016, Jacob is a Guest Professor at the Danish Technical University.
mehrwenigerWe have reserved a limited number of rooms for our participants at reduced rates at the hotel. These rooms can be booked up to 6 weeks prior to the start of the event. Please book early and directly through the hotel quoting „Akademie Fresenius“ as reference.
Representatives of an authority or a public university are therefore eligible for a reduced fee of € 795.00 plus VAT per person (please provide evidence). The reduced fee cannot be combined with other rebates.
For joint bookings received from one company we grant a 15 % discount from the third participant onwards (it doesn’t apply for representatives of an authority or a public university).
Although we cannot substitute an intensive exchange with your fellow colleagues, we can provide you with a complete set of event documentation. The event documentation package includes all the presentations on the event agenda (subject to the approval of our speakers). It will be sent out around two weeks after the event once we have received your payment (free of shipping costs). We will also provide you with details on how to access the restricted download section on our website. This section contains all the latest versions of the presentations in colour and in digital form.
Price: € 295.00 plus VAT
Anne Möller
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-84
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Anne Möller
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-84
amoellerakademie-fresenius.de
Anne Möller
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-84
amoellerakademie-fresenius.de
Annika Koterba
Organisation and participant management
+49 231 75896-74
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Our event offers you the opportunity of presenting your company in a special exhibition.
You can personally present your products and services directly to your specific target group. We would be happy to provide you with further information on all the available options from a simple product information display to a complete exhibition stand.
We would be pleased to assist you personally:
Analisa Mills
Phone: +49 231 75896-77
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