Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs) represent a significant breakthrough in material design and development for medicine, electronics and consumer products. However, as the production and use in ENMs grows, there are increased opportunities for potential health risks from intended or accidental exposure to ENMs. The physical and chemical properties (PCPs) of ENMs that make them useful for so many applications also make them potentially hazardous for living systems. Moreover, the ease with which thousands of variants of ENMs can be generated with diverse PCPs necessitates the need for multidisciplinary collaborative approaches. To this end, NIEHS has initiated a consortia-based multidisciplinary team of investigators to work together to identify ENM-induced biological responses at the cellular, tissue and whole-organism. This knowledge will be utilized to develop computational predictive models for assessing human health risks. This presentation will review critical research gaps and needs to strategically address nanotechnology environmental health and safety.

Nanotechnology environmental health and safety: The need for multidisciplinary consortium apporaches

244th National Meeting (2012)

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