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Thesis defense

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María Ángeles Martínez, PhD candidate of the Environmental Risks area, defended successfully her doctoral thesis the last 25th May.

Title: "Endocrine disruption assessment: exposure, biomonitoring and potential activity of widespread endocrine disruptors during pregnancy and early stages of life".

Supervisors: Prof. Marta Schuhmacher, Dr. Joaquim Rovira, Dr. Vikas Kumar.

Posted on 25-05-2020

Our last review article about the potential adverse health effects of living near a HWI is already online

Domingo JL, Marquès M, Mari M, Schuhmacher M. Adverse health effects for populations living near waste incinerators with special attention to hazardous waste incinerators. A review of the scientific literature. Environ. Res. 187, 109631.

Scientific Articles 01-08-2020

Posted on 24-05-2020

RESCOP: COVID-19 and environmental pollution

Named RESCOP, scientists from Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas are assessing the potential relationship between the influence of pandemic progression and the presence of material particles in the air. Prof. Domingo, director of TecnATox, is part of the Advisory Board.

You will find more information about RESCOP in the following links:

La Vanguardia

Diari Digital URV

EFE VERDE

Posted on 23-05-2020

Seminar - Big data in human health risk assessment: a curse or cure?

Dr. Vikas Kumar, director of Systems Toxicology area of TecnATox, has been invited by ISGlobal to do a virtual seminar.

Title: Big data in human health risk assessment: a curse or cure?

Big Data is a broad term for large data sets arriving from multiple sources with typological and structural complexities that presents integrational, analytical, and visualization challenges to extract meaningful information. In the human health risk assessment, the amount of data is exploding from HTS to biosensors, large scale biomonitoring to multigenerational individual and population-based studies. Scientists can use it to develop targeted treatments for old and emerging medical conditions. Governments are asset rich with massive data fields with the opportunity to design better policies and governance. However, Big data often touted as the new oil, can face the same fate as the oil curse? The scattered and massive “Big Data” captures the opportunities as well as challenges in accessing, integrating, managing, analyzing, and finally, finding meaningful information. In this talk, I will present the current perspective and challenges of Big Data research in the transdisciplinary field of human health risk assessment with some examples of the current pandemic of COVID-19 as well.

When? May 29 at 9:30am

Where? https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/814958517

Posted on 21-05-2020

FlameRISK - A new survey is open

In the framework of FlameRISK project, we have built a survey aimed at assessing the presence of flame retardants in households of families living with children between 6 and 12 years old. If you are willing to help us in our study, you just need to click on one of the following links:

Survey in Catalan

Survey in Spanish

Posted on 19-05-2020

Last scientific publications of TecnATox

Marquès M, Domingo JL, Nadal M, Schuhmacher M. Health risks for the population living near petrochemical industrial complexes. 2. Adverse health outcomes other than cancer. Sci. Total Environ. 2020 Aug 15: 139122

Scientific Articles 15-08-2020

Autrup H, Barile FA, Berry SC, Blaauboer BJ, Boobis A, Bolt H, Borgert CJ, Dekant W, Dietrich D, Domingo JL, Batta Gori G, Greim H, Hengstler J, Kacew S, Marquardt H, Pelkonen O, Savolainen K, Heslop-Harrison P, Vermeulen NP. Human exposure to synthetic endocrine disrupting chemicals (S-EDCs) is generally negligible as compared to natural compounds with higher or comparable endocrine activity. How to evaluate the risk of the S-EDCs?. Toxicol Lett. 2020 Apr 19. pii: S0378-4274(20)30111-9. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2020.04.008.

Scientific Articles 19-04-2020

González N, Marquès M, Cunha SC, Fernandes JO, Domingo JL, Nadal M. Biomonitoring of co-exposure to bisphenols by consumers of canned foodstuffs. Environ. Int. Jul 2020: 105760

Scientific Articles 01-07-2020

Domingo JL, Rovira J. Effects of air pollutants on the transmission and severity of respiratory viral infections. Environ. Res. May 2020: 109650

Scientific Articles 11-05-2020

Posted on 06-05-2020

PETROCOVID

Our research team of the "Neuropsychology Area and Emotions" Area of TecnATox has designed a questionnaire aimed at evaluating the impact of the confinement caused by COVID-19 at neuropsychological, psychological and emotional level, considering the proximity to the chemical and petrochemical complex of Tarragona (study approved by the Ethical Committee CEim-IISPV, num. 084/2020).

Results of the questionnaire will make possible to obtain relevant information about the negative effects on our mental health caused by the current situation in our County, as well as the parameters influencing on it, to further provide recommendations to the public administation.

The questionnaire is anonymous and will take you only 10 minutes. It is available throught the following link:PETROCOVID (https://psico.fcep.urv.cat/Q/petrocovid). Thanks for your participation!

Posted on 22-04-2020

Last publication of TecnATox

Martínez MA, Rovira J, Prasad Sharma R, Schuhmacher M, Kumar V. Reconstruction of phthalate exposure and DINCH metabolites from biomonitoring data from the EXHES cohort of Tarragona, Spain: A case study on estimated vs reconstructed DEHP using the PBPK model. Environ Res. 2020 Apr, In press.

Scientific Articles 18-04-2020

Posted on 20-04-2020

Are you breastfeeding? Contact us and join EarlyFOOD project

We are looking for participants to join EarlyFOOD cohort.

If you are breastfeeding your baby and you are willing to take part in our study, please contact us and we will be delighted to give you more details.

Posted on 17-04-2020

Impact of the Petrochemical Complex of Tarragona on Human Health: First publication

Domingo JL, Marquès M, Nadal M, Schuhmacher M. Health risks for the population living near petrochemical industrial T complexes. 1. Cancer risks: A review of the scientific literature. Environ Res. 2020 Jul 2020:109495

Scientific Articles

Posted on 14-04-2020