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Short course Risk Assessment and Regulatory Toxicology 2025

Micro-credential

This Micro-credential Short Course Risk Assessment and Regulatory Toxicology corresponds to module 8 of the MAS in Toxicology.

Microcertification

Information

Period

3 June 2025 - 6 June 2025
4 ECTS credits (micro-credential)
29 Teaching hours
Personal working hours: 91

EQF-level

Language

English

Format

On-site

Contact

Location

Geneva

Registration

Registration deadline

2 May 2025

Fees:

CHF 1,000

Audience

Graduates with a master’s degree in medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, biochemistry, chemistry, biology, or a qualification which is judged equivalent.

Learning outcomes

Understand and be able to apply methods of toxicological risk assessment and risk management in regulatory processes for human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, pesticides, cosmetics, food and food additives and industrial chemicals.

Programme

Students will learn methods of toxicological hazard and exposure assessment and how to apply them to risk characterization. Risk management, risk perception and communication will also be discussed. In addition, experts from federal authorities and industry will provide insights into the role of safety assessment in the regulation of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and nanomaterials.

Director(s)

Prof. Caroline SAMER, Faculty of Medicine, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

Coordinator(s)

Dr Jean TERRIER, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

Partnership

Swiss Center for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT) • Centre of Competence in Analytic Chemistry and Toxicology (ccCTA) • Swiss Society of Toxicology (SST) • Ecotox Centre, Eawag/EPFL • AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Basel • AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Lausanne • AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Zürich

Assessment

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and written paper

Admission criteria

Master’s degree in medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, biochemistry, chemistry, biology, or a qualification which is judged equivalent.

Steering committee

  • Prof. Gerrit BORCHARD, President of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ
  • Prof. Antoine GEISSBUHLER, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ
  • Prof. Serge RUDAZ, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, Faculty of Sciences, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ
  • Prof. Caroline SAMER, President of the Board, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Sciences, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ
  • Prof. Laura SUTER-DICK, School of Life Sciences, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW); Vice President of the Swiss Society of Toxicology (SST)
  • Prof. Aurélien THOMAS, Unit of Toxicology, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ Center of Legal Medicine, Lausanne-Geneva; Faculty of Biology and Medicine, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Lausanne
  • Prof. Ellen FRITSCHE, Director, Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, SCAHT

Scientific committee

  • Prof. Alexander JETTER, Head of Scientific Services and Postgraduate Education, Tox Info Suisse, Zürich
  • Dr Argyro NIKOLAOU, Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medecine, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ
  • Prof. Alex ODERMATT, Division of Molecular and System Toxicology, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Basel
  • Dr Jean TERRIER, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

Schedule

8h15-12h, 13h15-17h

  • Dr Rex FITZGERALD, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Basel
  • Prof. Ellen FRITSCHE, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Basel
  • Prof. Martin WILKS, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Basel