PARTICLE
_RISK
IOM leads PARTICLE_RISK, a collaborative research project funded by the European Commission FP6-NEST programme. It involves 7 research organisations throughout Europe and is led by IOM (Project leader Dr Lang Tran). The aim of PARTICLE_RISK is to acquire a bank of new and emerging science and technology particles (NESTP) including Fullerenes, C60, Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Black, CdTe quantum dots and gold nano-clusters, and to assess the health risk from exposure to these materials through air or the food supply with a work programme, integrating in vitro experiments, animal models of healthy/susceptible individuals and exposure/risk assessment.
PARTICLE_RISK was completed in 2008.
A presentation
summarising the project
from Project Co-ordinator
Dr Lang Tran is available here.
For further information, please click here.