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The Association of Inhalation Toxicologists (AIT) committee met last week and after some very difficult discussions and careful consideration of the continuing coronavirus outbreak, and to ensure the safety and well-being of our organisers, participants and speakers, the AIT has reluctantly taken the decision to postpone the AIT face-to-face conference due to be held in October 2021. The face-to-face conference will be moved to October 2022 (dates and venue TBC).

In place of the conference, the AIT is planning several virtual webinar sessions to be held during the Autumn of 2021. The plan is to do up to 3 x 30-45 minute talks per day followed by a Q&A session. Each webinar during the day will have space for 100 attendees. Details of the webinar dates, presentation titles and programme order will be confirmed in due course.

Presentations:

The AIT has several presentations lined up however if you have an interesting piece of work in the inhaled area, regulatory updates, novel/refined sampling techniques etc. that you would like to present, we would love to hear from you. Please contact the AIT membership secretary at aitoxicology@gmail.com

Posters:

The AIT would like to hear if you have any posters in the inhaled area that you would like to submit to place on the secure members area of our website (www.aitoxicology.org). The posters will be added to the AIT web page containing the 2021 webinar presentation recordings (only AIT members will be able to access this area). Please contact the AIT membership secretary at aitoxicology@gmail.com

Sponsorship:

We are welcoming sponsorship of the AIT webinars this year (currently 10 presentations are planned and more are to be confirmed; up to 100 delegates can attend each presentation). As a small organisation this sponsorship greatly helps us to cover the costs of each of our events.

The AIT would like to thank GILEAD Sciences Inc. and CHARLES RIVER for their Level 1 sponsorship. Please follow their links to see their products and services.

Your company could be detailed here too…………..

Level 1 sponsorship: $1000 to help in covering costs of all the webinar sessions.

Level 2 sponsorship: $350 to help in covering the cost of one webinar session.

Please contact the AIT membership secretary at aitoxicology@gmail.com to discuss sponsorship if you are interested.

Thanks so much for the support you have given to the AIT in the past and hopefully this can continue long into the future.

More details, including dates, will be available soon.

Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8840519200105064462

The payment should be made prior to the event, via the following link:  https://www.pay-with.com/eurotoxpath/estp-workshop-it-qa-aspects-of-digital-pathology/

  ESTP_IT_DP_workshop_flyer.pdf (13.4 KiB, 65 hits)

  Program_2020_ESTP_F2F_Digital_Pathology_8th_WS.xlsx (22.9 KiB, 55 hits)

It is our pleasure to announce that the ESTP will support the residency program at the Veterinary School (TiHo) in Hannover by offering a comprehensive introduction to Toxicologic Pathology. The program has a long-standing tradition as a part of the Veterinary Pathology residency program at TiHo receiving support from speakers from Pharmaceutical and Chemical companies mainly located in Germany. It is our goal to modernize and change this formerly only locally offered event into an International European program open to ALL students interested in learning more about toxicological pathology.

The organ-based lecture program will provide a general overview on the morphology of organ systems as well as a wide range of examples of xenobiotic-induced changes in short- and long-term toxicity studies and their relevance for safety evaluation. Furthermore, it will give a detailed insight into the everyday work of a toxicological pathologist, showing the many different facts of our work and how exciting it is to be working as a pathologist in a toxicology team. Additionally, general subjects such as introduction to regulatory toxicology, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, new technologies (-omics) are discussed. The well-known Classical Examples of Toxicologic Pathology meeting is part of this program, too.

The modules will take place from Friday noon until Saturday afternoon at the TiHo in Hannover. The lectures will be offered free of charge to students from academia and the speakers will not be reimbursed. The ESTP will cover additional administrative cost, coffee breaks, and a pizza lunch on Saturday if not sponsored by the company of one of the speakers. On Friday evening, a self-financed get together will be organized at a restaurant in Hannover, giving the opportunity to network. Due to the COVID-19 situation the two first modules during the winter term 2020/2021 will be offered as virtual seminars.

  ResidentTraining_TiHo_-_Programme_Overview.pdf (99.6 KiB, 29 hits)

There is already a framework for the lectures in place which encompasses 16 modules over a period of three and a half years. Please see attached schedule. New speakers are more than welcome and dearly needed to make this adventure a success. It is our chance to introduce toxicological pathology in an exciting way to young pathologists, and to attract them to our field of expertise. If you are interested in giving a lecture or would like to learn more, please contact us in the “working group ToxPath Modules Hannover”.  Please also visit the homepage of the Veterinary School https://www.tiho-hannover.de/kliniken-institute/institute/institut-fuer-pathologie/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/toxicologic_pathology_training_program. We are happy to give you more information and to establish contact to the chair of the module of interest.

On behalf of the ESTP

Anna-Lena Frisk, Annette Romeike, Dirk Schaudien, Emmanuelle Balme, Silvia Guionaud, and Thomas Nolte from the ESTP working group PhD Modules Hannover

afrisk@its.jnj.com, annette.romeike@covance.com; Silvia@guionaudconsulting.com; thomas.nolte@boehringer-ingelheim.com; dirk.schaudien@item.fraunhofer.de; emmanuelle.balme@boehringer-ingelheim.com

Franck Chanut - ESTP Chairman