A WEBINAR DISCUSSION WITH
CARLOS DAS NEVES VERA ROGIERS RICHARD CURRIE
Chief Scientist Em. Professor of Toxicology, Syngenta Senior Fellow
EFSA VUB Vice-chair, SCCS Syngenta
(European Commission)
Monday, 17 June 2024, 15h30–17h00 CET
This ERIF webinar will focus on the challenge of making greater use of the potential of new methods and techniques, including New Approach Methods (NAMs) and Artificial Intelligence, within scientific assessments of hazard, risk and safety.
Advances in scientific knowledge increasingly challenge historic frameworks of regulatory science, creating the need to redefine the concept of “best available science”. Throughout the OECD area, there has been a steady movement towards the adoption of “next generation risk assessment”: a paradigm shift in regulatory science. To improve protection of the environment and health, whilst also strengthening incentives to innovate, the EU needs to embrace fully these changes. There is, however, a need to build confidence in the reliability and effective of new methods and techniques, whilst also overcoming legislative, regulatory and cultural barriers to wider adoption.
This webinar will consider the potential benefits from and obstacles to exploiting these new technologies, as well as examining practical experience in integrating their findings into scientific assessments for regulatory requirements. It will also consider how to strengthen governance of regulatory science at EU-level, so as to accelerate change.
The event and subsequent discussion will be held under The Chatham House Rule. We will use the Zoom software, but the option will be open to call in by phone as well.
Please share this invitation widely amongst your colleagues.
To attend, please register HERE.
Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with all the relevant dial-in details.
About our speakers:
Chief Scientist Em. Professor of Toxicology, Syngenta Senior Fellow
EFSA VUB Vice-chair, SCCS Syngenta
(European Commission)
Monday, 17 June 2024, 15h30–17h00 CET
This ERIF webinar will focus on the challenge of making greater use of the potential of new methods and techniques, including New Approach Methods (NAMs) and Artificial Intelligence, within scientific assessments of hazard, risk and safety.
Advances in scientific knowledge increasingly challenge historic frameworks of regulatory science, creating the need to redefine the concept of “best available science”. Throughout the OECD area, there has been a steady movement towards the adoption of “next generation risk assessment”: a paradigm shift in regulatory science. To improve protection of the environment and health, whilst also strengthening incentives to innovate, the EU needs to embrace fully these changes. There is, however, a need to build confidence in the reliability and effective of new methods and techniques, whilst also overcoming legislative, regulatory and cultural barriers to wider adoption.
This webinar will consider the potential benefits from and obstacles to exploiting these new technologies, as well as examining practical experience in integrating their findings into scientific assessments for regulatory requirements. It will also consider how to strengthen governance of regulatory science at EU-level, so as to accelerate change.
The event and subsequent discussion will be held under The Chatham House Rule. We will use the Zoom software, but the option will be open to call in by phone as well.
Please share this invitation widely amongst your colleagues.
To attend, please register HERE.
Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with all the relevant dial-in details.
About our speakers:
Carlos das Neves is EFSA’s Chief Scientist and has been a member of EFSA’s senior management team since November 2022.
A Portuguese and Norwegian national, Carlos was Director of Research and Internationalisation at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) before joining EFSA, and previously served as Head of Virology and Head of Food Safety & Emerging Threats at the NVI. He is also a Full Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT).
Carlos is a veterinarian (DVM – Technical University of Lisbon) and holds a PhD in veterinary sciences (Norwegian School of Veterinary Sciences). He also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Certificate in Public Policy Analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His areas of research and teaching include animal health, biodiversity, emerging threats, and One Health. He has led national and international research and development projects and has been a member of international panels and organisations related to his field of work. Carlos has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books.
A Portuguese and Norwegian national, Carlos was Director of Research and Internationalisation at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) before joining EFSA, and previously served as Head of Virology and Head of Food Safety & Emerging Threats at the NVI. He is also a Full Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT).
Carlos is a veterinarian (DVM – Technical University of Lisbon) and holds a PhD in veterinary sciences (Norwegian School of Veterinary Sciences). He also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Certificate in Public Policy Analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His areas of research and teaching include animal health, biodiversity, emerging threats, and One Health. He has led national and international research and development projects and has been a member of international panels and organisations related to his field of work. Carlos has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books.
Vera Rogiers is an Em. Prof. Dr. Pharm. at the VUB. She was, before going on emeritate in 2017, full-time Professor Toxicology and Head of the Department of In Vitro Toxicology and Dermato-Cosmetology (IVTD) at the faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. She still works within IVTD and teaches demato-cosmetic sciences at the VUB and UGhent. She is the Founder and Director of the Innovation Centre 3 Rs (IC-3Rs) at the VUB, which promotes the use of alternative methods instead of animal testing. In that context, she also directs the Chair Mireille Aerens for the development of alternative methods. She started at the VUB, together with Sciensano, the RE-Place database (https://www.re-place.be) a central database for Replacement methodology in Belgium.
At the European level, she is the Co-chair of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) of DG SANTE in the European Commission. She is member of the JRC’s Preliminary Assessment of Regulatory Relevance group (PARERE); and of DG GROW’s mirror group of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA). 
Richard Currie is a Syngenta Senior Science and Technology Fellow in Global Product Safety’s Science Strategy function, based at the Jealotts Hill International Research Centre (Bracknell, UK).
His research interests are in the development and application of modern approaches such as SAR, mechanism of toxicity (including MOA/AOPs), multi-omics methods & bioinformatic interpretation, in vitro assays and quantitative systems models for toxicology, ecotoxicology and environmental fate. He is a leader for the identification, development, and deployment of new approaches that enhance the capabilities of our research teams to invent new safe and sustainable crop protection active ingredients. Through his internal and external collaborations, his work illustrates and champions the use of mechanistic toxicology and modern scientific approaches to current and future problems in risk assessment. We look forward to welcoming you again to ERIF soon. Background reading / resources:
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