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Drs Watkins and Brouwer developed, DILIsym, a computer program designed to predict how drugs will affect the liver.

October 30, 2014
  DILIsym, a computer model developed by the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences (Dr. Watkins) has been used by researchers at UNC to solve a nearly 20 year old mystery about a new drug designed to treat type 2 diabetes –Troglizatone-. After its inception in 1997 it had killed 63...

New Research in Emerging Tobacco Products…

October 30, 2014
Students, post-docs, and investigators from the CiT are investigating potential health effects caused by new and emerging tobacco products as part of the UNC-SOM Center for Tobacco Regulatory Science. To see more http://www.med.unc.edu/tcors-lung/about-us The UNC School of Medicine Center for Tobacco Regulatory Sciences (TCORS) is headed by Dr Robert Tarran...

Research conducted by trainees and members of the Curriculum in Toxicology described in EPA’s final NextGen Report.

October 30, 2014
“Next Generation Risk Assessment: Recent Advances in Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology” describes how new molecular, computational and systems biology data and approaches (together called “NexGen”) could better inform risk assessment. The final report put together by EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment describes results from a multiyear, multi-organization effort...