Below, we list research projects that contribute to the continuous scientific development of USEtox and where at least one member of the USEtox Team was or is involved as beneficiary partner.
Project Duration: 1-Dec-2024 to 31-Mar-2028
Short Description: Safe Chem! - Improving ecotoxicity assessments of pharma medicine supporting Sanofi to combat global biodiversity loss from just getting better to becoming good enough aims to enable the development of pharma medicines that are absolutely sustainable.
Project Duration: 1-Nov-2023 to 31-Oct-2026
Short Description: TerraChem - 'From soils to apex species: Chemical pathways, effects and impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services and applications for better chemicals management' (Horizon Europe Program of the European Commission) aims to integrate monitoring, environmental modelling, data management, analytical tools and user guidance to better understand exposure of terrestrial biota across trophic levels in Europe to the universe of environmentally-relevant anthropogenic chemicals and their damage on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Project Duration: 1-Jan-2023 to 1-Feb-2025
Short Description: A.I.-Tox for SSbD - Development of a machine learning/artificial intelligence base method to support the initial hazard evaluation of chemicals under data scarcity by the application of pairwise learning modelling to comprehensively bridge data gaps in the available set of ecotoxicity tests data, followed by hazard characterization via Species Sensitivity Distributions.
Project Duration: 1-Aug-2022 to 30-Jun-2024
Short Description: Children’s Exposures to EDCs in Consumer Products - This project aims to explore the application of USEtox to assess children’s aggregate exposures to endocrine disruputing chemicals (EDCs) in consumer products, focusing on bisphenol A in toys and parabens in personal care products.
Project Duration: 1-Jan-2022 to 30-Aug-2023
Short Description: Toxic pressure in sensitive areas - This project aims at the development of a user-oriented set of tools and methods to characterize exposure to and potential impacts of unintended mixtures of chemical pollutants in sensitive, protected nature areas. This project addressed the societal concerns that were voiced upon finding enhanced exposure concentrations of chemicals in protected areas.
