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UFZ Supervison Award for Tamara Tal
We are pleased to inform that Prof Dr Tamara Tal has received the UFZ Supervision Award 2023. We congratulate her on this honour!
Prof Dr Tamara Tal has been group leader of the Molecular Toxicology group since 2019. Her research specialises in the development of new methods (NAMs) for developmental neurotoxicity, the use of molecular approaches to elucidate the mechanisms by which chemical exposure causes adverse outcomes, and the study of chemical-microbiome interactions that influence host toxicity outcomes. The award recognises your outstanding commitment to mentoring your international team.
We are proud to have Prof Dr Tamara Tal as part of our team and we look forward to her future contributions to environmental research.
Copyright André Künzelmann
The goal of PrecisionTox is to improve chemical safety assessment to better protect human health and the environment by using non-traditional test species, multiple fields of knowledge, and powerful computational approaches to understand which chemicals are toxic and why.
https://precisiontox.org/
With MANTRA - data on innovative materials for sustainability and transfer - the BMBF is funding a scientific communication project for 3.5 years from January 2024 for networking, public relations and the development of indicators for sustainability as well as industry/practice transfer. These topics will be communicated via a website, brochures and information flyers using an interdisciplinary approach. In addition to the UFZ, the project consortium consists of the partners DECHEMA (coordination), KIT, TU Berlin and the subcontractor NanoCASE.
PlasticsFatE - Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body aims at improving our present understanding of the impact of micro- and nano-plastics (MP/NP) and associated additives/adsorbed contaminants (A/C) in the human body. To do so, reliable and validated methods will be developed that are able to generate the science-based data we need. PlasticsFatE is a 48-month project funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union. The project will run from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2025.
https://www.plasticsfate.eu