Dr. Alberto Mantovani National Institute of Health Italy, Italy

Dr. Alberto Mantovani is a senior toxicologist of the Italian National Health Institute (Istituto Superiore di Sanità – ISS). He is also an expert of the European Food Safety Authority (FEEDAP Panel on animal feeds 2003-12 and 2015-18, PPR Panel on pesticides 2012-15, Working Group on Emerging Risks, 2010-15). The... read moremain topic for his scientific and risk assessment activities are endocrine disrupting chemicals: besides collaborating on OECD and EU activities, he has coordinated the pilot national project on EDC (see the EDC-dedicated ISS website: http://www.iss.it/inte), the project PREVIENI, the first initiative on EDC biomonitoring in Italy (http://www.iss.it/prvn) and the project EDESIA under the EU programme LIFE, to implement a science-based substitution of EDC with safer substances (http://www.iss.it/life). He is currently responsible for the ISS partnership into the Horizon 2020 project Eu-ToxRisk (http://www.eu-toxrisk.eu/) a EU-wide programme driving mechanism-based toxicity testing and risk assessment.