BSC 2023 Annual Meeting
28 September 2023 Botanical Safety Consortium 2023 Annual Meeting held virtually on Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 9:00 – 3:30 (US Eastern). The meeting is free an open to all. Meeting flyer can be downloaded here. Videos Welcome & Meeting Objectives: Ms. Connie Mitchell, HESI Botanical Safety Consortium Introduction and Updates: Dr. Cynthia Rider,…
SPS 2023 Annual Meeting
18 – 21 September 2023 HESI Botanical Safety Consortium Cardiotoxicty Technical Working Group poster at the 2023 Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting in Brussels, Belgium. P132: From neat compounds to complex mixtures: A potential screening strategy for cardiotoxic potential of botanicals. View full poster here. Go to Meeting Website
ETS 2023 Annual Meeting
17 – 20 September 2023 HESI Botanical Safety Consortium DART Technical Working Group poster at the 51st Annual Meeting of the European Teratology Society in Madrid, Spain. Go to Meeting Website
EMGS 2023 Annual Meeting
9 – 13 September 2023 HESI Botanical Safety Consortium Genotoxicity Technical Working Group poster presentation entitled “A Strategy for Developing a Robust Framework of Genotoxicity Assays for Safety Assessment of Botanicals” at the Environmental Mutagenesis & Genomics Society 54th Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA. Go to Meeting Website
ASP2023 – Current Topics in Botanical Safety Workshop
22 July 2023, 1:30 – 4:30pm HESI Botanical Safety Consortium workshop on Saturday, 22 July from 1:30 – 4:30pm at the 2023 American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual Meeting in Rockville, Maryland. Current Topics in Botanical Safety Sponsored by: The Botanical Safety Consortium Chairs: Dr. Hellen O’Ketch-Rabah & Dr. Michelle Embry The growing popularity and interest…
71st International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA)
July 5, 2023 BSC sponsored session on “Current Topics in Botanical Safety” at the 71st International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) in Dublin, Ireland. View full program HERE
ICSB 2023
25 April 2023 HESI Botanical Safety Consortium session at the 21st International Conference on the Science of Botanicals (ICSB). ICSB Session 7a: Botanical Safety Assessment: Updates From The BSC Chair: Dan Marsman, Proctor & Gamble Location: OCC Auditorium Date:25 April 2023 at 1 pm-2:15 pm CT 1:00-1:25 Connie Mitchell, Health And Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) – The…
Society of Toxicology 2023 Meeting
19-23 March 2023 HESI Botanical Safety Consortium at SOT2023 in person in Nashville. Symposium: New Approach Methodologies to Evaluate Botanical Safety, Monday 20 March, 1:45 pm – 4:30 pm Poster: Predicted Pharmacokinetic Properties of Botanical Constituents, Tuesday 21 March, 2:30 – 4:15 am Poster: A Potential Screening Strategy for Neuroactive Potential of Botanicals, Wednesday 22…
Toxicology Forum 2023 Winter Meeting
23 January 2023 HESI Botanical Safety Consortium event titled “Advancement of Botanical Safety Using New Approach Methodologies” at the Toxicology Forum 2023 Winter Meeting on January 23, 2023 from 1pm – 3pm EST. Link to the full program here: https://toxforum.site-ym.com/page/2023WinterMeetingProgram
BSC Webinar: An In-Silico Method To Predict Cardiotoxicity In Botanical Substances
29 November 2022 The HESI Botanical Safety Consortium will host a webinar on Tuesday November 29 at 11 am ET from Dr. Jeremy Billson (InoCardia) entitled “An In-Silico Method To Predict Cardiotoxicity In Botanical Substances“. This work is a pilot project, using a predictive model for cardiovascular liabilities with botanical constituents. On the webinar Jeremy…
The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) was officially convened in November 2019, as the result of a Memorandum of Understanding between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the non-profit Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI).
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Botanical Safety Consortium Summit 2024
Thursday October 10 and Friday October 11 2024 In-person: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Durham, NC, USA Virtual: TBA The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) will…
New publication: Advancing botanical safety
Advancing botanical safety: A strategy for selecting, sourcing, and characterizing botanicals for developing toxicological tools. Waidyanatha et al., February 2024. Food and Chemical Toxicology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2024.114537 Increases in botanical use,…
New publication in Food and Chemical Toxicology
Neuroactivity screening of botanical extracts using microelectrode array (MEA) recordings Regina G.D.M. van Kleef, Michelle R. Embry, Constance A. Mitchell, Remco H.S. Westerink. Food and Chemical Toxicology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2024.114438 The…
International Congress on Natural Products Research (ICNPR)
13 – 17 July 2024 The Botanical Safety Consortium is holding a training course as part of the meeting on Saturday 13 July entitled “Cultivating Safety: Toxicology 101 of Botanicals…
ICSB 2024
15 -18 April 2024 The Botanical Safety Consortium will be in attendance and presenting at the 22nd International Conference on the Science of Botanicals. Speakers include Connie Mitchell (HESI), and committee…
34th German Society for Environmental Mutation Research Meeting (GUM)
20 – 22 March 2024 The Botanical Safety Consortium will present two posters at the 34th German Society for Environmental Mutation Research Meeting (GUM). When: 20 – 22…
SOT 2024
10 – 14 March 2024 The BSC will be presenting at SOT 2024 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Monday, March 11@1:45-4:30pm Symposium Session: Botanical-Induced Toxicity: Liver Injury and…
Botanical Safety Consortium: Introduction and Updates
18 January 2024 Connie Mitchell, Michelle Embry & Julie Krzykwa will be presenting to the US FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) to update the…
New publication in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Improving the rigor and utility of botanical toxicity studies: Recommended resources Deval Patel, Barbara C. Sorkin, Constance A. Mitchell, Michelle R. Embry, Sharline Rina-Kong, Rebecca E. Adams, Emily…
New BSC Review
Potential pharmacokinetic interactions with concurrent use of herbal medicines and a ritonavir-boosted COVID-19 protease inhibitor in low and middle-income countries Dallas J. Smith, Huichang Bi, Josias Hamman, Xiaochao…
