Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment

The new field of toxicogenomics presents a potentially powerful set of tools to better understand the health effects of exposures to toxicants in the environment. At the request of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Research Council assembled a committee to identify the benefits of toxicogenomics, the challenges to achieving them, and potential approaches to overcoming such challenges. The report concludes that realizing the potential of toxicogenomics to improve public health decisions will require a concerted effort to generate data, make use of existing data, and study data in new ways--an effort requiring funding, interagency coordination, and data management strategies.Committee on Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment is the author of 'Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment', published 2007 under ISBN 9780309112987 and ISBN 0309112982.