International Life Sciences Institute Research

ILSI, International Life Sciences Institute, Research Needs on Age-related Differences in Susceptibility to Chemical Toxicants. Report of an ILSI Risk Science Institute Working Group. Washington, DC ILSI Risk Science Institute, 1996. 

Recommended Dietapy Allowances Eood and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1989. M. Brown, ed., Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 6th ed.. International Life Sciences Institute/Nutrition Eoundation, Washington, D.C., 1990. 

Because this hypothesis generated considerable anxiety and had broad pubhc health implications, the Nutrition Foundation (formerly affiliated with the International Life Sciences Institute but now defunct) convened a committee to evaluate the scientific evidence relative to the Feingold hypothesis, and if warranted, provide guidelines for further research. The committee, known as the National Advisory Committee on Hyperkinesis and Food Additives (1975), found no conclusive link between diet and behavior, but could not rule out a possible association since no studies appropriate for testing the hypothesis had been carried out. Based on the committee s recommendations, several doubleblind crossover studies were subsequently conducted, but these produced... 

Farmer P Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment ILSl/HESl research programme on alternative cancer models results of Syrian hamster embryo cell transformation assay. International Life Sciences Institute/Health and Environmental Science Institute. Toxicol Pathol 2002 30 536-8. 

A number of private organizations fund biomonitoring programs for research purposes and to assess exposure at the individual level. The efforts of the American Chemistry Council s Long-Range Research Initiative, the International Life Sciences Institute Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (ILSI-HESI) Biomonitoring Technical Committee, and private laboratories that cater to individual requests to biomonitor for chemicals are highlighted below. 

ILSI (2004). International Life Science Institute. Cumulative and Aggregate Risk Evaluation System (CARES ) Research Foundation Project. 

Deputy Director, Research Foundation, International Life Sciences Institute, Washington, DC, USA... 

In 1996 a collaborative effort was subsequently initiated under the auspices of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) branch of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) with the specific purpose of facilitating a focused systematic evaluation of several of the new alternative models proposed within the ICH guidance. Participation in this research collaboration was global in scope encompassing Europe, Japan, and the United States and... 

PATRICK V. O Brien, Chevron Research and Technology, Richmond, California DOROTHY E. Patton, International Life Sciences Institute, Washington, D.C. Ann Powers, Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York Louise M. Ryan, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts JONATHAN M. Samet, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland KIRK Smith, University of California, Berkeley... 

To address its task, the committee held four public sessions in which it heard presentations from officials of EPA s Office of Research and Development CDC s National Center for Environmental Health, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health the Washington State Department of Health the International Life Sciences biomonitoring committee the American Chemistry Council Crop-Life America the Association of Public Health Laboratories Environmental Defense and academe. 

Research articles of interest to biochemists may appear in many types of research journals. Research libraries do not have the funds necessary to subscribe to every journal, nor do scientists have the time to survey every current journal copy for articles of interest. Two publications that help scientists to keep up with published articles are Chemical Titles (published every 2 weeks by the American Chemical Society) and the weekly Current Contents available in hard copy and computer disks (published by the Institute of Science Information). The Life Science edition of Current Contents is the most useful for biochemists. The computer revolution has reached into the chemical and biochemical literature, and most college and university libraries now subscribe to computer bibliographic search services. One such service is STN International, the scientific and technical information network. This on-line system allows direct access to some of the world s largest scientific databases. The STN databases of most value to life scientists include BIOSIS Pre-views/RN (produced by Bio Sciences Information Service covers original research reports, reviews, and U.S. patents in biology and biomedicine), CA (produced by Chemical Abstracts service covers research reports in all areas of chemistry), MEDLINE, and MEDLARS (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Index Medicus, respectively cover all areas of biomedicine). These networks provide on-line service and their databases can be accessed from personal computers in the office, laboratory, or library. Some... 

Toshiyuki Kohno Laboratory of Structural Biology, Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences (MITILS), Tokyo, Japan Kit S. Lam Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis Cancer Center, University of California, Davis, CA Rob Lf.i irs Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (LACDR), Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands... 

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