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Roadmap for future QSAR in nanotechnology risk assessment
Created by sheona.read on 07/12/2012 11:32:05

A team of experts has outlined a roadmap for the future use of quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) methods in nanoparticle risk assessment.


A multi-national team of scientists has outlined a roadmap for the future use of quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) methods in nanoparticle risk assessment, based on a 2011 European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) workshop.

The scientists from a range of institutions, including the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh, UK, Australia’s national science agency (CSIRO), and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Italy, define a series of milestones for the next decade. The scientists say achieving the milestones requires a number of things to happen: 
  • expansion of the network of experimental and computational researchers, regulators and policy-makers;
  • maintaining the needs of the end-users of the experimental and modelling research outcomes as a prominent driver for the work; 
  • a focus on high-throughput experimentation; and 
  • the development of a "funding mechanism" to support a network of stakeholders and fund research.
Writing in the journal Toxicology, the scientists also summarise recent advances in QSAR modelling of nanomaterial toxicity, and identify major research gaps.  Click here to access the journal abstract. 


Reference: Winkler, D.A. et al., 2012. “Applying quantitative structure-activity relationship approaches to nanotoxicology: current status and future potential,” Toxicology [in press]. 

Source: Chemical Watch

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