INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON GENOTOXICITY TESTING (IWGT)

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WORKSHOPS

Workshops are usually held as satellite meetings to  the International Conference on Environmental Mutagens (ICEM) → Frequency: ca. every four years
Melbourne, 1993 Washington, 1999 Plymouth, 2002
San Francisco, 2005 Basel, 2009 Foz do Iguacu, 2013
Tokyo, 2017 Ottawa, 2022
IWGT 1998 (Osaka)

Participants of the preparation meeting (Osaka, 1998) for the IWGT in Washington, 1999.

IWGT 2022 (Ottawa)

Participants of the 8th IWGT in Ottawa, 2022.

Principles and objectives

  • Each WG consists of Chairperson, Co-Chair, Rapporteur, and invited experts.
  • Reach consensus recommendations on difficult or conflicting approaches to genotoxicity testing.
  • Consensus is driven by data, taking all views into consideration, but in a spirit of compromise (where possible), or defining new areas of research and data-gathering if consensus cannot be reached.

The product

  • In the final wrap-up session at IWGT each group reports back on achievements.
  • These reports are refined and presented at the main ICEM meeting … and other meetings.

Full reports are published usually in a Special Issue of a relevant peer-review journal.

Chair, Co-chair and Rapporteur of each WG are responsible for coordinating the preparation of the manuscripts.
The IWGT Steering Committee act as reviewers and provide support for any questions.