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September 2008
Summer Fellowship Seminar

July 2008
Gift to UMRSC
July 2008 Newsletter

June 2008
Air Toxics Symposium Announcement

March 2008
Newsletter

February 2008
Risk Science Fellowship Competition

October 2007
Bernstein Symposium Proceedings

Bernstein Symposium Photos

Excellence in Research Award to Garabrant

September 2007
Dioxin 2007 Conference, Japan
UMRSC research team attend international event, graduate student Qixuan Chen awarded Otto Hutzinger prize at conference.

August 2007
People
David Garabrant update, Elisabete Salay and Susan Johnson join UMRSC.

November 21, 2006
With the Emergence of New Nanotechnologies, There Is a Real Need to Monitor Exposure to Humans

Fourteen top international scientists in the field of nanotechnology have identified Five Grand Challenges for nanotechnology risk research that must be met if the technology is to reach its full potential. The study will be published Thursday November 16 in Nature. Dr. Martin Philbert, co-author of the paper, answers Scitizen’s questions.

November 16, 2006
Andrew D. Maynard, Safe Handling of Nanotechnology (Nature; Vol 444: 267-269)

The Pursuit of responsible nanotechnologies can be tackled through a series of grand challenges.

November 15, 2006
Scientists Warn of Nanotech Risks and Urge Action by Government and Researchers
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A group of top nanotechnology scientists says that governments must take immediate steps to minimize the potential risks posed by the burgeoning nanotechnology field, which could grow into a $100-billion market within 10 years.

October 13, 2006
Industry, Experts Try To Sell FDA Nanotech Panel On Status Quo (26KB, PDF)
FDA Week (Vol. 12 No. 41)

At a Tuesday (Oct. 10) meeting by the FDA advisory panel on nanotechnology, the cosmetics lobby announced an upcoming, voluntary data exchange program in a bid to counter consumer advocates' calls for FDA to increase scrutiny of products containing nano-sized particles.

October 10, 2006
Public Meeting on Nanotechnology Materials in FDA Regulated Products
(www.fda.gov)

October 10, 2006
FDA Gets Mixed Advice on Nanotechnology (16KB, PDF)
Associated Press

The government must balance close oversight of the
fast-growing field of nanotechnology against the risk of stifling new
development, a Food and Drug Administration conference was told Tuesday.

September 26, 2006
Nanotechnology Risks Unknown (Washington Post; Page A12)

Insufficient Attention Paid to Potential Dangers.

September 6, 2005
Center for Risk Science kicks off with symposium Sept. 15-16 (The University Record)

Quantifying DangerQuantifying Danger (838KB, PDF)
UM SPH Findings magazine (Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 2004)

In a recent survey, Americans ranked nuclear power as the greatest potential risk to human health. But experts view it as less risky than firefighting, pesticides, surgery, and riding bicycles. Who’s right? And how can we be sure? Read about the issues central to the establishment of the new University of Michigan Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

 

Nanotechnology Research Update: Nanotechnology (213KB, PDF)
UM SPH Findings magazine (Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2003)

The University of Michigan Risk Science Center Executive Director Martin Philbert and colleagues throughout UM launch an ambitious exploration of inner space to capture astonishing views of living cells in real-time and 3D. Read about how synthetic nanoprobes are used to view differences in operation between healthy and diseased cells.

 

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