• Newsletter.1 - HEROIC – An Introduction
• Newsletter.1-We are HEROICs and how we work
• Newsletter.1 - Focus on HEROIC partners
• Newsletter 2 Strengths, weaknesses/limitations, opportunities, and threats (SWOT): analysis of the "as is" situation in RA
• Newsletter 2 The accessibility of available data: the Tox-Hub platform
• Newsletter 2 Focus On Heroic Partners
• Newsletter 3 Focus On Heroic Partners
• Newsletter 3 Examination and inventory of endpoints, data and models available for hazard and exposure assessment
• Newsletter 4 integrated risk assessment of chemical mixture
• Newsletter 4 Focus On Heroic Partners
• Newsletter 5 HEROIC consultation workshop on expert elicitation
• Newsletter 5 Expert Workshop on Extrapolation for Hazard Assessment
• Newsletter 5 Stakeholders consultation on potential socio-behaviour factors
• Newsletter 5 Focus on Heroic partners
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC roadmap to the white paper on policy and technical recommendations
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC Expert workshop on extrapolations in integrated exposure assessment, Paris, January 21-22, 2014
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC Focus on Heroic partners
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC Expert roundtable on socio-behavioural factors in risk analysis policy making
• Newsletter main page

Newsletter 5 Focus On Heroic Partners

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ (www.ufz.de) was established in 1991 and has more than 1,100 employees in Leipzig, Halle/S. and Magdeburg. They study the complex interactions between humans and the environment in cultivated and damaged landscapes. The scientists develop concepts and processes to help secure the natural foundations of human life for future generations.
UFZ is (co)-responsible for various tasks in WP3, WP4 and WP6

The project work is allocated to the Department of Ecological Chemistry, which undertakes research into environmental chemodynamics and molecular toxicology. Its focus is on structure-activity relationships, employing chemoassays, bioassays, computational chemistry, chemoinformatics and biomimetics to study compound toxicity, reactivity, partitioning and degradation.

UFZ, belongs to the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres, an interdisciplinary institution that contributes to solving major challenges facing society, science and the economy with top scientific achievements in six research areas: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space. With about 34,000 employees in 18 research centres the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation.