Biological Reactive Intermediates Conference VII:BRIs and Human Health and Disease

Conference Description

Biological reactive intermediates are chemicals that initiate non-enzymatic reactions with cellular macromolecules following enzymatic reactions that occur in vivo under specific conditions. The International Symposia on Biological Reactive Intermediates (BRI) began 30 years ago and has been held every five years in the following locations:

University of Turku, Finland (1975)

University of Surrey, Guildford, The United Kingdom (1980)

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (1985)

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (1990)

GSF Forschungszentrum and Technical University of Munich (1995)

Université René Descartes, Paris, France (2000)

This year the conference is being hosted by the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center of the University of Arizona, held at the Westin La Paloma Resort. The interest and enthusiasm of contributing speakers, presenters and authors continues to grow. The science is at the cutting edge of Toxicology and is being adopted in the fields of genomics and proteomics. Studies of mechanistic toxicology and queries into the utilization of data from studies of biological reactive intermediates in the risk assessment process highlight the relevance of the symposia.