2019 CEFIC-LRI INNOVATIVE SCIENCE AWARD

Chair: Prof Felix Carvalho

EUROTOX President Elect

• €100.000 award to support promising new research in the field of mammalian and environmental toxicology

• Objectives:

• stimulate innovative research, ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking

• foster new approaches to advance the development and application of new and existing approaches in the assessment of chemical safety

• 2018 theme: improved alignment of the AOP concept in toxicology with the needs of risk assessment

A STEPPING STONE FOR FUTURE LEADERS IN SCIENCE SINCE 2004

PREVIOUS CEFIC-LRI AWARDEES

Roger Godschalk Paul van den Brink Ellen Fritsche Roman Ashauer Emma Taylor Hector Keun Maria Saborit

Thomas Preuss Andreas Bender Sabine Langie Alexandra Antunes Alice Limonciel Wibke Busch Spyros Karakitsios David Pamies

• MSc in Bioengineering, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain

• PhD in Bioengineering, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain

• JRC-IHCP Trainee, Ispra, Italy

• Research Associate, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing

• PDF in the Department of Physiology, Lausanne University,

Switzerland

2018 CEFIC-LRI INNOVATIVE SCIENCE AWARDEE: Dr DAVID PAMIES

AWARD 2018 PROJECT RESULTS

Quantitative evaluation of the Key Events Relationships resulting in impairment of learning and memory abilities to support regulatory decision-making

THE 2019 LRI INNOVATIVE SCIENCE AWARD GOES TO…

Dr Karolina Nowak

Division of Geobiotechnology, Institute for Biotechnology, Technical University of Berlin, DE

2018 CEFIC-LRI INNOVATIVE SCIENCE AWARDEE: Dr KAROLINA NOWAK

• Master Engineer Degree in Environmental Management from

the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

• PhD in Environmental Chemistry from the RWTH Aachen

University, Germany

• Postdoctoral position at Technische Universität Berlin

(Division of Geobiotechnology), Germany

• Guest scientist at the Department of Environmental

Biotechnology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

(UFZ)

AWARD 2019 PROJECT PLANS

Deuterium Isotope Probing (DIP) as a new diagnostic tool for the assessment of biodegradation and Non-Extractable Residues (NER) formation in regulatory testing of organic chemicals

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