ECNIS Workshop on Biomarkers and Environmental Health Biomonitoring,

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• ECNIS Workshop on Biomarkers and Environmental
  Health Biomonitoring,
• Luxembourg, 29/11/2006
• Presentation to
• Implementation Group meeting, Paris 6/9/2006

Maria Botsivali National Hellenic Research
Foundation, Athens Communication Officer, ECNIS
NoE
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ECNIS Environmental Cancer Risk,Nutrition and
Individual Susceptibility Network of
Excellence, FP6Project started May 1st 2005
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Main objective of ECNIS

• To establish a viable European research network
• a) to conduct world-class research on
  environmental
• cancer and its modulation by diet and individual
  susceptibility,
• b) promote cancer prevention through the
  dissemination of scientific knowledge to
  stakeholders (general public, policy makers,
  industry, NGOs, health physicians etc)

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24 partners from 13 European countries,
including some of the top European cancer
research centres
Coordinator Prof. K. Rydzynski, Nofer Institute
of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland
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• Main research activity of ECNIS focused on
  biomarkers and their application in population
  studies (molecular epidemiology)
• Research Tasks
• 1. Development and validation of biomarkers of
  carcinogen exposure and early effects
• 2. Development and validation of biomarkers of
  susceptibility
• 3. Implementation of biomarker technology in
  cancer prevention
• 4. Mechanisms of modulation of cancer by dietary
  factors
• 5. Mechanistic research to support cancer risk
  assessment

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• Workshop organised in the context of ECNIS
  Dissemination to Stakeholders activity
• Objectives
• a) To introduce ECNIS NoE and its activities in
  the area of biomarkers in environmental
  carcinogenesis research
• b) To provide information on state of science of
  biomarkers and their relevance to environmental
  health research and policy formulation
  implementation
• Target audience SCALE Consultative Forum
• Place/date Luxembourg, 29/11/2006 (afternoon)

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Draft programme 1. Introduction to the
Workshop 2. The ECNIS NoE and biomarker-related
research in Europe (ECNIS speaker) 3. Biomarkers
and biomonitoring policy needs and knowledge
gaps (EC speaker) 4. Biomarkers of environmental
health potential and limitations (ECNIS
speaker) 5. Scientific basis for the selection of
pollutants and target populations in
biomonitoring for environmental health
surveillance (ECNIS speaker) 6. Biomonitoring in
the workplace experience and lessons for
biomonitoring of environmental exposure (ECNIS
speaker) 7. Links between biomarker research,
environmental health surveillance and risk
assessment (ECNIS speaker) 8. Biomarkers and
human biomonitoring A view from the ESBIO
project (ESBIO speaker) 9. Round Table discussion
on the prospects and needs in the development of
Human Biomonitoring in Europe