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7. Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lang Tran, principal toxicologist at IOM, has focused on the development and usage of Physiologically-Based Pharmaco-Kinetics (PBPK) models of particle exposure for use in risk assessment. The products of this work are used by the Health and Safety Executives (HSE) of the UK and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the United States.
IOM has also coordinated a project on selecting a reference panel of nanoparticles for toxicology and metrology testing on behalf of the UK government.

Lang Tran will serve as the leader of Work Package 6 (Modeling and Risk Assessment) and will contribute to the working group on EU-US Coordination and Dissemination (WP7).

Group members:

• Lang Tran, Ph.D.  (Principal Investigator)
• Bryony Ross (research assistant)

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Selected publications:

1. Donaldson K, Aitken R, Tran L, Stone V, Duffin R, Forrest G, Alexander A.
   Carbon nanotubes: a review of their properties in relation to pulmonary toxicology and workplace safety.
   Toxicol Sci 2006; 92:5-22. Read » (opens in new window)
2. MaynardAD, Aitken RJ, Butz T, Colvin V, Donaldson K, Oberdörster G, PhilbertMA, Ryan J, Seaton A, Stone V, Tinkle SS, Tran L, Walker NJ, Warheit DB.
   Safe handling of nanotechnology.
   Nature 2006; 444:268-269. Read » (opens in new window)
3. Donaldson K, Stone V, Tran CL, Kreyling W, Borm PJ
   Nanotoxicology.
   Occup Environ Med.; 2004; 61:727-728. Read » (opens in new window)