Academic Partnerships & Collaborations on New Assessment Methodologies

OEHHA is collaborating with academic and non-governmental entities in the NAMs space and contracted with research groups at UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC Davis, Texas A&M Superfund Research Center, and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority to develop several new toxicological evaluation methods, including:

• Computational models for receptor and transporter binding
• Comparison of in vitro and in vivo effects for emerging pollutants
• Alternative methods for assessing developmental toxicity
• Toxicokinetic and transcriptomic studies
• Specific in vitro reporter gene assays to test several data-poor chemicals