PhD courses at University of Copenhagen

Postgraduate Course in Applied Toxicology
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3152-15-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 19/10/2015

Date and time	09.11.2015, at: 09:00 - 26.11.2015, at: 16:00
Regular seats	12
Course fee	14,160.00 kr.
Lecturers	Grete Østergaard
ECTS credits	7.50

Contact person	Gitte Balle Kaltoft E-mail address: gitte.nielsen@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment guidelines Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: At a basic level, a. Assess toxicological studies for quality and reliability b. Know about guideline methods c. Perform a risk assessment d. Perform a toxicological necropsy e. Know about various areas of regulation of chemicals Content • Toxicological endpoints and guidelines: Toxicokinetics, acute toxicity, local irritation, sensitisation, repeated dose toxicity, mutagenicity/genotoxicity, carcinogenicity, toxicity to reproduction and developmental toxicity. • Elements of guideline studies: Necropsy, haematology, clinical chemistry • Practical advice: Study planning, how to find data. • General items: GLP, overview of laboratory animals, hazard classification. • Areas of regulation: Industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, working environment • Risk assessment • Visit to contract test lab ScanTox • Homework Participants Ph.d.-students and veterinarians, MDs, pharmacists and other persons with a biomedical academic background. Language English Form Lectures, group work, practical exercises, excursion Course directors Grete Østergaard (gos@sund.ku.dk), DVM, PhD, MS, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Copenhagen and Elsa Nielsen (elsn@food.dtu.dk), Senior Advisor, DTU National Food Institute Teachers Grete Østergaard, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Copenhagen Cathrine Juel Bundgaard, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Copenhagen Elsa Nielsen, DTU National Food Institute Alicja Mortensen, DTU National Food Institute Charlotte Madsen, DTU National Food Institute Anoop Kumar Sharma, DTU National Food Institute Sofie Christiansen, DTU National Food Institute Trine Reffstrup, DTU National Food Institute Camilla Taxvig, DTU National Food Institute Eva Bay Wedebye, DTU National Food Institute Karin Sørig Hougaard, National Research Center for Working Envionment Finn Pedersen, Danish Environmental Protection Agency Trine Thorup Andersen, Danish Environmental Protection Agency Henrik Tang Vestergaard, H. Lundbeck A/S Peter Glerup, CiToxLAB Scantox Course secretary Gitte Kaltoft Nielsen (gitte.nielsen@sund.ku.dk) Dates Week 46-48, November 9-26, 2015 Course location The Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Panum Building, Nørre Allé 20, DK-2200 Copenhagen N