Towards Efficient Designing of Safe Nanomaterials

Jerzy Leszczynski is Professor of Chemistry and a President's Distinguished Fellow. Director of Interdisciplinary Nanotoxicity Center. Author and co-author of almost 700 peer-reviewed papers (H index 47) and 50 book chapters.

Nanomaterials: benefits and risks;

Experimental characterizing structural properties of nanoparticles related to their toxicity;

Structure-property mapping methods;

Modelling properties of nanoparticles based on quantum-mechanical methods;

Ontology;

Empirical determination of nanoparticles' behavior in environmental media;

Computational mass-ballance modeling of environmental transport and fate of engineered nanoparticles;

Pharmacokinetics and biological fate of nanoparticles;

Pharmacokinetic-based modeling;

Modeling kinetics of nanoparticle cellular interaction and transport;

Toxicity and Ecotoxicity testing of engineered nanoparticles - experimental point of view;

In vitro toxicity of nanomaterials;

In vivo testing;

Computational modeling of interactions between nanoparticles and other species;

Comprehensive Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Nanomaterial Risk Assessment;

Predicting oxidative stress;

Nano-QSAR