Nanomaterials & Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety: Overview with Focus on nano-hydroxyapatite and Silica

23 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s): Frederick C. Klaessig

Nano WG January 23, 2020The EU’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety advises the European Commission on the safety of products covered by the Cosmetics Directive, which includes personal care products as well as cosmetics. In the 2013-2016 time period, the Committee published...

NANoREG-Proposed ISA-TAB-Nano Template Expansion

13 Apr 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Nancy Birkner

Nano WG presentation April 13, 2017 by Dr. Nancy Birkner, post-doctoral associate at Duke University working in conjunction with the NanoInformatics Knowledge Commons, presented her progress on reviewing and updating the ISA-TAB-Nano data exchange formats. Dr. Birkner described the evolution of...

NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, and caNanoLab: A Data Repository for Cancer Nanomedicines

27 Nov 2018 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Luisa Russell, Mervi Heiskanen

Nano WG presentation November15, 2018 NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer –Structure–Achievements–Scientific FocuscaNanoLab–Intro to Platform–Data Curation–User Statistics–Future Directions

Overview of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Nanotechnology Characterizaton Laboratory (NCL)

03 Nov 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Jennifer Hall Grossman

Working in concert with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) established the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory to perform preclinical efficacy and toxicity testing of...

Overview of the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons, Genomic Data Commons (GDC), and NCI Cloud Resources

07 Jun 2018 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Tanja Davidsen, Mervi Heiskanen

Nano WG presentation, June 7, 2018 by Tanja Davidsen, NCI CBIIT The Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) and NCI Cloud Resources overview.

Patient Stories

30 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Diane Townsel

Beaumont’s Patient videos: is the story of five patients that have participated in clinical research or have been a part of a bio-specimen study. The videos tell the unique stories of our patients and how our Cancer Clinical Trials staff build relationships with our patients and guide them...

Por Nuestras Hijas/For Our Daughters HPV Program

24 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Maria E. Fernandez

The Por Nuestras Hijas/For Our Daughters HPV program is an interactive, culturally appropriate HPV education program which includes a print fotonovela and a tailored interactive multimedia intervention (TIMI). The TIMI runs on iPads and also available on the web and mobile platforms. The program...

Read across in nanosafety research: Dissolution behaviour of a library of 37 nanomaterials in simplified physiological media

05 Nov 2019 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Tassos Papadiamantis, Emily Guggenheim, Antreas Afantitis, Sophie Briffa, Georgia Melagraki, Iseult Lynch, Eugenia Valsami-Jones

NanoWorkingGroup, 31 October 2019The dissolution of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is a complex process, which remains poorly understood despite being one of the key prerequisites for the risk assessment of ENMs, and having a direct influence on toxicological and eco-toxicological effects....

So What Can We Do With Nano Informatics? – Leveraging Decision Analytic Tools

22 Jan 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Igor Linkov, Matthew Bates

Jan 22, 2015 meeting                  Nanotechnology Working Group Matthew E. Bates & Igor Linkov Risk & Decision Science Team Environmental Laboratory, Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army...

Some thoughts on our progress in defining and advancing nanoinformatics

06 Nov 2018 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark D Hoover

Nano WG presentation November 1, 2018 by Mark Hoover, NIOSH Discussion on Nano WG accomplishments, goals and future directions.

Some thoughts on our progress in defining and advancing nanoinformatics

01 Aug 2019 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark D Hoover

Nano WG Meeting November 1, 2018Discussion on Nano WG accomplishments and future directions.

Some Thoughts on Reproducibility

05 Dec 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): John Rumble

Nano WG December 4, 2014

Some Thoughts on Reproducibility

05 Dec 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): John Rumble

Nano WG December 4, 2014

Support Access to NPO's Structure and Content

13 Aug 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael Halper, Vladimir Ventura, Yehoshua Perl

•Abstraction Networks (“AbNs”) for Ontologies•Two example AbNs:–Area taxonomy–Partial-area taxonomy•BLUOWL: taxonomy-based software tool•Application to the NPO•Conclusions

Text Messaging and Phone Calls as Tools to Promote Healthy Behaviors among Hispanic Populations

24 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Laura Leticia Nervi, Barbara Damron, Maria Otero, Andrew Sussman, Dolores Guest

Title: Text Messaging and Phone Calls as Tools to Promote Healthy Behaviors among Hispanic Populations   Objectives: The primary aim of this project was to evaluate the use of text messaging and phone calls to motivate Hispanic adult males and females to increase their daily physical...

Text Messaging as a Method to Increase Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Hispanic Cancer Populations

23 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Laura Leticia Nervi, Barbara Damron, Andrew Sussman, Dolores Guest

Title: Text Messaging as a Method to Increase Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Hispanic Cancer Populations:  Patient and Provider Feasibility Surveys Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of conducting an interventional study to evaluate the effectiveness of text...

Text Mining, Data Mining and Molecular Dynamics Simulations for in Silico Design of PAMAM Dendrimers

17 Jun 2016 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Julio Facelli

Nano WG June 16, 2016 Text Mining, Data Mining and Molecular Dynamics Simulations for in Silico Design of PAMAM Dendrimers by Julio Facelli

The Boston Medical Center Patient Navigation Toolkit

22 Dec 2015 | Downloads

The BMC Toolkit offers case studies, tools and resources from cancer care navigation that can be applied to reduce the impact of the target disease, health disparities, and barriers to care unique to your own community. For Program Planners, Volume 1: Developing your Patient Navigation...

The impact of engineered nanomaterials on aquatic species: ISA-TAB compatible dataset mined from literature (2007-2016)

13 Jun 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Anastasios Papadiamantis

Nano WG presentation, June 8, 2017Primary scope of the project was to: Model the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) at multiple levels and design and create a database (DB) containing extracted peer-reviewed published toxicity dataAnalyse the extracted data and identify...