{"id":539,"date":"2016-04-24T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T03:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/?page_id=539"},"modified":"2016-04-25T22:25:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T04:25:47","slug":"nanotoxicology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/nanotoxicology\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanotoxicology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) are a rapidly expanding and diversifying group of\u00a0technologies with current and potential applications in a range of industrial and\u00a0domestic products including clothing, agriculture, electronics, healthcare and\u00a0wastewater treatment. With increased application of ENP-enabled technologies,\u00a0release of ENPs into the environment will inevitably increase.<\/p>\n

To manage this\u00a0release effectively and to minimize risk to wildlife, environmental regulators require\u00a0information of the environmental fate, behaviour and toxicity of ENPs. ENPs are\u00a0synthesized with numerous core materials and surface chemistries, this grant will\u00a0be use to assist regulators by providing knowledge of the specific properties of ENPs\u00a0that contribute to their toxicity that could be applied used in the initial stages of the\u00a0risk assessment process. These predictions would be beneficial to both\u00a0environmental regulators by allowing them to target their limited resources on\u00a0ENPs possessing the greatest potential hazard and to Canadian industry by\u00a0encouraging proactive modifications to materials chemistry early in the\u00a0development cycle.<\/p>\n

This proposal outlines a research program that will focus on\u00a0identifying properties of ENPs important for mobility, persistence and toxicity of\u00a0ENPs in the aquatic environment. The research brings together a multidisciplinary\u00a0team of academic researchers at University of Alberta, McGill University and\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. Additional support for this proposal comes from\u00a0contributions and technical expertise from Environment Canada, NRC National\u00a0Institute for Nanotechnology and Vive Crop Protection, a leading nanotechnology\u00a0company in Canada.<\/p>\n

This research program has played and continues to play a significant part in\u00a0developing OECD test guidelines for standardization of nanomaterial testing across\u00a0the globe. We work directly with regulators at Environment Canada, the European\u00a0Union and US EPA to inform them of hazard and how to conduct, understand and\u00a0properly interpret nanomaterial testing research.<\/p>\n

\"Environment<\/p>\n

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\"NSERC<\/p>\n

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\"NRC\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) are a rapidly expanding and diversifying group of\u00a0technologies with current and potential applications in a range of industrial and\u00a0domestic products including clothing, agriculture, electronics, healthcare and\u00a0wastewater treatment. With increased application of ENP-enabled technologies,\u00a0release of ENPs into the environment will inevitably increase. To manage this\u00a0release effectively and to… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}