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Here you will find topics covered in past meetings GETA has held.
Click on the meeting topic for meeting review.
2008
Spring “Strategies
to Predict QT Prolongation and Arrhythmias: Assessing hERG and Other
Cardiac Ion Channels Early in Drug Development”
2007
Winter “Delaying
(or Accelerating) Degenerative DIseases: DNA Damage”
Spring “Genetics
and Environmental Risk Factors for Autistic Spectral Disorders”
- Presentations: Autism | Asberger's
Syndrome
Fall “Environmental
The New Generation of Contaminants
That Could Affect the Bay: Flame Retardants, Pharmaceuticals, Perfluorinated
Compounds” - Presentation:
SFEI
2006
Winter “Health
on the Brink of….Opportunity, Collapse, New Science What?
The 21st Century and Toxicology?”
Spring “Aging
and Older Adults”
Fall “Green
Chemistry: Coloring California Green” - Presentations:
Green Buildings | Green Chemistry - Slides
, Notes
2005
Winter “Marin County Breast Cancer Rate: Myth and Reality”
Spring “Stem Cell Application in Pharmacology and Toxicology”
Fall “New Frontiers in Biotechnology Drug Development”
2004
Winter “Genetic and Environmental Clues in Parkinson’s Disease Research”
Spring “Ultrafine Particles and Nanomaterial – Common Toxicity Concerns”
Fall “Toxicity to the Developing Brain: Recent Research and Mechanisms of Effect”
2003
Winter “Things that go Bump in the Night: Tropical parasites and the Challenge of Tropical Disease”
Fall “Infectious Diseases – From Discovery to Drug Development to Biodefense”
2002
Winter “Pediatric AIDS Prevention in Zimbabwe”
Spring “Current Issues in DNA Repair: Models and Mechanisms”
Fall “Contemporary Issues in Human Health Assessment”
2001
Winter “Human Xenobiotic Metabolism: Is Man a Rat?”
Spring “The Promise of the Genomics Revolution”
Fall “Children’s Health – Issues in Assessing Impacts of Chemical Exposures”
2000
Winter “Ethical Guidelines for Biotechnology”
Spring “Inhalation Toxicology: The Impact of Environmental Exposure on Public Health”
Fall “Contemporary Issues: the Scientific Basis of Hexavalent Chromium Toxicity”
1999
Spring “Old Problems for a New Millennium: Controversial Issues in Human Exposure to Radiations and Chemicals”
Fall “Epidemiology With a Local Angle
1998
Winter “Exercise, Estrogens and Breast Cancer”
Spring “Progress on Model Genomes Human Genetic Polymorphisms: Susceptibility and Risk”
Fall “Emerging Research on MTBE”
1997
Winter “Challenges of Gulf War Veterans Illnesses”
Spring “Environmental Estrogens and Endocrine Disruptors”
Fall “Fish & Chips: New Technologies in Toxicology and Epidemiology”
1996
Winter “Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Toxicology and Pharmacology”
Summer “The Human Genome Project” – and – “Recent Developments in Risk Assessment”
Fall “Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery and Development” – and – “The Drug Development Process; from Concept to FDA Approval”
1995
Winter “Direct Sperm Injection into Eggs: New Hope for the infertile Couple”
Spring “Forensic Toxicology and New Methods for Assessing Human Variability” - and – “Advances in the Assessment of Human Exposure, Susceptibility and Health Effects”
Fall “Particulate Exposure and Health Effects: Epidemiology, Toxicology, and Cellular Mechanisms”
1994
Spring “Race, Poverty, and the Environment”
Summer “Recent Advances in Cancer Genetics”
Fall “Topics in Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology” – and – “Molecular Biology of DNA Repair”
1993
Spring “Innovation vs. Regulation”
Summer “The Immune System: Biology and Toxicology”
Fall “Genetic Toxicology and Regulatory Issues”
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