Attendees at the Oct 28-29 workshop

December 2, 2008

Attendees at the Oct 28-29 workshop, held in Washington DC, included:
Andrew Atkinson, Environment Canada
Barbara Beck, Gradient Corporation
Darrell Boverhof,Dow
Rick Canady, FDA
Shaun Clancy, ISO
Vicki Colvin, Rice University
Ray David, BASF
Britt Erickson, ACS
Gregory Fritz, EPA
Bill Gulledge, ACC
Mark Hoover, NIOSH
Fred Klaessig, Pennsylvania Bio Nano Systems, LLC
Steve Klaine, Clemson University
Kristen Kulinowski, Rice University
Daniel Chuantung Lin, EPA
Igor Linkov, US Army
Laurie Locascio, NIST
Chris [...]

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Welcome

November 19, 2008

Welcome to the Minimum Information for Nanomaterial Characterization Initiative.
This is a community initiative to improve the level of materials characterization in nanotoxicology studies.  It aims to complement other activities by encouraging the adoption of a minimum set of physical and chemical material characterization parameters in nanotoxicology studies.
Development of an organized approach to documenting critical characterization [...]

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Ensuring Appropriate Material Characterization in Nano-toxicity Studies

November 19, 2008

Workshop Summary
A workshop was held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC between Oct 28 – 29 2008, with two aims:

To develop minimal material characterization recommendations for nano-toxicology studies; and
To develop a plan of action for encouraging adoption of these recommendations by researchers, research managers and research publishers.

This is a draft summary of workshop [...]

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