Modelling the Toxicity of Nanoparticles

Engineered Nanoparticles - Their physico-chemical characteristics and how to measure them.- Measurement .- The Life-Cycle of Engineered Nanoparticles.- From Dose to Response - In vivo Nanoparticle Processing and Potential Toxicity.- From Dose to Response - Literature review od (Q)SAR Modelling of Nanomaterial Toxicity.- Systems biology to support nanomaterial grouping.- Multiscale modelling of bionano interface.- Biological Surface Adsorption Index of Nanomaterials - Modeling Surface Interactions of Nanomaterials with Biomolecules.- Case study I - An integrated data-driven strategy for safe-by-design nanoparticles: The FP7 MODERN Project.- Case study II  - Compilation of Data and Modeling of Nanoparticle Interactions and Toxicity and in the European NanoPUZZLES Project.- Case study III - The construction of a nanotoxicity database: the MOD-ENP-TOX experience.

Dr Lang Tran is the Principal Toxicologist at the Institute of Occupational Medicine. Lang has contributed considerably on the toxicology of inhaled particles and fibres. His early work was in the mathematical modelling of the retention and clearance of man-made mineral fibres and mineral dusts.  He has led the investigation and the risk assessment of inhaled poorly soluble particles which helped NIOSH in establishing the control limit for fine and ultrafine TiO2 aerosol.From his experience with particle toxicology Lang has contributed also in many European Research Projects through the Framework 6 and 7 Programmes. Most notable are the project FP7 ENPRA (Risk Assessment of Engineered Nanoparticles) and FP7 MARINA (Managing Risks of Nanoparticles). Lang is currently the chairman of the COST Action TD1204 MODENA on Modelling the toxicity of nanoparticles. Lang is an editor of the NANOTOXICOLOGY and PARTICLE and FIBRE TOXICOLOGY journals.  He also contributesin the organisation of the NANOTOXICOLOGY Symposium series.
Miguel A. Bañares (PhD in Chemistry, University of Salamanca, 1992) is Full Research Professor at ICP Institute for Catalysis, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), where he joined in 1996 and Associate Editor for Catalysis Today. Was postdoctoral fellow at Lehigh University, PA, and at the University of Notre Dame, IN. Bañares has recently been distinguished by the "Otto Mønsted" Visiting Professorship at DTU University, Denmark (2014) and the FEDER-Region Base de Normandie, "chaire d'excellence" at CNRS Caen, France, during (2013-2015). 

            He has been Deputy Vice-President of CSIC, Spanish National Research Council (2014-2015), chairman of the Management Committee of COST Action D36 (Molecular structure-performance relationships at the surface of functional materials), 2006-2011 and is Vice-Chairman of the Management