Advancing Research on Mixtures: New Perspectives and Approaches for Predicting Adverse Human Health Effects

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is hosting a workshop entitled "Advancing Research on Mixtures: New Perspectives and Approaches for Predicting Adverse Human Health Effects on September 26-27, 
2011 at the Sheraton Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

The goal of the Mixtures Workshop is to identify and focus on key issues  that present challenges in mixtures research (for this workshop, "mixtures" includes combined independent exposures). The NIEHS will use the results from the workshop to inform the development of an intramural and extramural mixtures research strategy. This workshop will also provide input to the scientific community for advancing mixtures research.

Specifically, this workshop will:
* Identify and prioritize the knowledge gaps and challenges in mixtures research specific to each of the following disciplines: toxicology, epidemiology, exposure science, risk assessment, and statistics
* Obtain advice on integrating multidisciplinary capabilities to address critical topics in mixtures research
* Provide recommendations for research on key topics
* Inform the development of a long-term NIEHS mixtures research agenda
* Foster collaborations between extramural and NIEHS scientists

For more information and to register for this workshop, please visit http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/conferences/dert/mixtures/.  Deadline to register for this workshop is Monday, September 12, 2011.

Questions? Please contact Cynthia Rider, PhD (cynthia.rider@nih.gov) or
Danielle Carlin, PhD. (danielle.carlin@nih.gov).