Refreshing the NNI’s Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy

ehs May 31–June 1, 2023
Online and L’Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, D.C.

The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO), on behalf of the U.S. Government’s National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), invites you to participate in a public meeting to discuss the revision of the NNI’s 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Research Strategy. Individuals, non-governmental organizations, academic and research institutions, and the private sector interested in the responsible development of nanotechnology are encouraged to attend and contribute to creating an updated EHS Research Strategy.

The NNI seeks feedback and perspectives on progress toward the goals set out in the NNI’s 2011 EHS Research Strategy and on remaining research gaps, new challenges, and opportunities. By involving the broadest cross section of stakeholders early in the process, the NNI hopes to prepare a fresh and durable strategic guide that is responsive to the continuing evolution of nanotechnology as an enabling technology. Additional opportunities to engage with the NNI’s EHS strategy refresh include responding to the Request for Information (RFI) published on April 5, 2023. The comment period for the RFI has been extended to 5 p.m. ET June 16, 2023. Information on the 2011 EHS Research Strategy is posted on the NNI website.

AGENDA

Day 1: May 31, 2023

Time EDT	Session	Speakers/Panelists
9 am – 9:15 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks	John Howard, Director of NIOSH Branden Brough, Director of the NNCO
9:15 am – 9:30 am	Background to the Revision of the 2011 Strategy	Treye Thomas (CPSC)
9:30 am – 10:30 am	Ethics in Nanoscience: Possible Lessons from the Biosciences Moderator: Vivian Ota Wang (NIH)	Keynote Speaker: Hank Greely (Stanford University)
10:30 am – 10:40 am	BREAK
10:40 am – 10:45 am	Review of online platform for comments	Josh Porterfield (NNCO AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow)
10:45 am – 12:45 pm	Session 1: Risk Assessment and Risk Management Methods, and Informatics and Modeling Research Areas Moderators: Jay Vietas (NIOSH) and Iris Camacho (EPA): Informatics and modeling (IM) Joanna Matheson (CPSC)	Invited Presenters: Phil Sayre (nanoAnalytics LLC & Consultant, Wiley Rein LLP (RAMM)), Mohammad Ali (Nanophase Technologies Corporation (RAMM)), Mark Wiesner (Duke University, U.S.-EU nanoEHS Communities of Research (COR) co-chair (RAMM)), Joana Sipe & Jaleesia Amos (Duke University (IM))
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm	LUNCH
1:45 pm – 3:45 pm	Nanomaterial Measurement Infrastructure and Environment Research Areas Moderators: Anil Patri (FDA), Elijah Petersen (NIST), Annette Guiseppi-Elie (EPA), and Vladimir Murashov (NIOSH)	Invited Presenters: Scott Brown (GlaxoSmithKline), Phil Demokritou (Rutgers University), and Monita Sharma (PETA Science Consortium International e.V.)
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm	WRAP-UP	Quinn Spadola; Deputy Director, NNCO

Day 2: June 1, 2023

Time EDT	Session	Speakers/Panelists
8:45 am – 9 am	Introduction, Reminders, and Housekeeping	Branden Brough (NNCO)
9 am – 9:45 am	Natural-Language Processing Approaches to Assess NanoEHS Research Trends Moderator: Quinn Spadola (Deputy Director, NNCO)	Keynote Presenters: Sagar Kamarthi, Sri Radhakrishnan
9:45 am – 12:00 pm w/ a break around 11 am	Human Exposure Assessment and Human Health Research Areas Moderators: Treye Thomas (CPSC); Sri Nadadur (NIEHS), and Janet Carter (OSHA)	Invited Presenters: Rick Canady, (NeutralScience (HEA)), Linsey Marr (Virginia Tech (HEA)), Christie M. Sayes, (Baylor University, U.S.-EU nanoEHS COR co-chair (HH)) Andre Nel, (UCLA (HH))
12 pm – 1 pm	LUNCH
1 pm – 3 pm	Future Directions, with Reporting Out from Core Research Areas Moderator: Quinn Spadola	Invited Presenters: Jo Anne Shatkin (Vireo Advisors, LLC), Julie Zimmerman (Yale), and Greg Lowry (Carnegie Mellon University)
3 pm – 3:15 pm	BREAK
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm	An Integrated Approach Moderators: Nora Savage (NSF) and Annie Jarabek (EPA)	Jordan Smith (Battelle Memorial Institute), Phoebe Stapleton (Rutgers University), Leanne Gilbertson (University of Pittsburgh)
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm	WRAP-UP	Branden Brough, Director, NNCO Quinn Spadola, Deputy Director, NNCO

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

Mohammad Ali
Director, QA & Regulatory Compliance, Nanophase Technologies Corporation

Jaleesia Amos
Doctoral Candidate, The Wiesner Group, Duke University

Scott Brown
Associate Director and GSK Fellow, GlaxoSmithKline

Rick Canady
Director and Founder, NeutralScience

Phil Demokritou
Henry Rutgers Chair and Professor in Nanoscience and Environmental Bioengineering, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Rutgers University

Leanne Gilbertson
Associate Professor, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Hank Greely
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Sagar Kamarthi
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

Greg Lowry
Walter J. Blenko, Sr. Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Linsey Marr
Charles P. Lunsford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech

Andre Nel
Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Research Director of the California Nano Systems Institute at UCLA; Director of the UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

Srinivasan Radhakrishnan
Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University

Christie M. Sayes
Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Toxicology, Baylor University

Phil Sayre
nanoRisk Analytics, LLC and Consultant for Wiley Rein, LLP

Monita Sharma
Nanotechnology Specialist, PETA Science Consortium International e.V.

JoAnne Shatkin
Director and Founder, Vireo Advisors

Joana Sipe
Postdoctoral Associate, The Wiesner Group, Duke University

Jordan Smith
Team Lead Exposure Science and Pathogen Biology| Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division

Phoebe Stapleton
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Mark Wiesner
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University

Julie Zimmerman
Professor, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Environment and Epidemiology, Yale University

RESOURCES

ABOUT

The Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Implications (NEHI) Working Group leads the NNI’s efforts to prepare an update to the NNI’s 2011 EHS Research Strategy. NEHI is a working group under the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Technology. NNCO conducts public engagement on behalf of the NNI and provides technical and administrative support to the NSET Subcommittee and the interagency nanotechnology community.

For further information, contact:
Rhema Bjorkland