[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 28 (Friday, February 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5005-5006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2805]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service


National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)/
National Toxicology Program (NTP) Public Meeting; Coordinated Research 
Program to Develop and Validate Transgenic Models for Carcinogenicity 
Studies.

    Notice is hereby given of a public meeting to be held at the 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to discuss the 
possibility of a coordinated research program to develop and validate 
transgenic models for carcinogenicity studies. The meeting will begin 
at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, February 9, 1996, in Conference Room 101B, in 
the Main Conference Facility of the NIEHS in the Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina. The meeting will adjourn by 5:00 p.m.
    From 8:30 a.m. to approximately 11:45 a.m. invited participants 
will provide brief overviews of the interests, perspectives, and 
ongoing initiatives of their individual companies, agencies, and 
institutions with respect to evaluating transgenic mouse models; and 
Federal regulatory agencies will briefly describe their interests and 

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perspectives with respect to the use of transgenic models for 
carcinogenicity studies. A lunch break is tentatively scheduled from 
11:45 a.m.--12:45 p.m. The afternoon session will be a discussion by 
the participants of a strategy for a joint validation program and will 
include discussion of the availability of models, selection of 
chemicals, evaluation and publication of results, and an estimation and 
commitment of resources to a collaborative program.
    The entire meeting is open to the public and limited only by the 
space available. Persons wanting additional information or wishing to 
attend should contact Ms. Sandra Lange, NIP Liaison Office, NIEHS, P.O. 
Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (telephone 919-
541-0530; fax 919-541-0295; or Internet [email protected]).

    Dated: January 30, 1996.
Kenneth Olden,
Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the 
National Toxicology Program.
[FR Doc. 96-2805 Filed 2-8-96; 8:45 am]
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