Inaugural Symposium

19 November 2009, 10:00 to 16:00

11.15	Assessing and Managing Human Health Risks from Chemicals	Dr Steffen Wengert BAG
11.30	Human Toxicology and Drug Safety Assessment	Dr Beat Schmid Swissmedic
11.45	Training and Education of Toxicologists in Switzerland – Status and Needs	Professor Friedlieb Pfannkuch President of the Swiss Toxicology Society
11.55	The SCAHT eLearning Portal	Dr Michelle Rossier Health Sciences eTraining Foundation
12.05	Website and information database project	Celia Boyer Health on the Net Foundation
12.15	Advice, Education, Research – The Role of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology	Dr Martin Wilks
14.00	Keynote Lecture: Public mistrust, indifferent science and the problems for regulation	Professor Sir Colin Berry, London
14.30	Introduction to the SCAHT research programme	Professor Denis Hochstrasser
14.45	Presentation of the core research projects
	Discovery of toxico-biomarker panels using a ‘system approach’	Dr Laurent Geiser
	Endocrine disruptors and male infertility	Dr Ariane Giacobino
	Mechanisms and in vitro prediction of non-allergic idiosyncratic toxicity	Professor Alex Odermatt
	Preclinical and clinical assessment of allergic toxicity of drugs	Professor Werner Pichler
15.45	Future research strategy, collaborations and synergies	Professor Stephan Krähenbühl