IOM

The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) is a major independent centre of scientific excellence in the fields of occupational and environmental health, hygiene and safety and has established a leading presence on chemical- and nanotechnology-risk issues through an international reputation in assessing the risk of small particles and fibres. IOM has expertise in hazard, exposure and risk assessment for workplace hazards, including nanomaterials and nanotechnology in support of regulation and industrial innovation.

Main activities and roles in SUNRISE

IOM has worked on method development projects for hazard, exposure and risk assessment of Nanomaterials, (notably ENPRA (lead), MARINA (lead), SUN, GUIDEnano, NANoREG, NanoReg2, GRACIOUS, PATROLS, NanoInformaTIX, Gov4Nano, BIORIMA(lead) among others), as well as industry-led innovation projects for the development of nano-enabled products (e.g. NanCore and NanoSafePack) and strategic innovation projects (i.e. NANOfutures PolyGraph, Electrograph, NanoMaster and NanoSynth) where we were WP lead for the health, safety and exposure assessment aspects. IOM has extensive expertise in data management, curation, and meeting principles of FAIR(findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) data. Our experts have been involved in development of various data standardisation and harmonisation tools to facilitate the FAIRification, Open-access and Re-use of data by scientific community, industrial partners and other stakeholders. IOM’s expertise on data management will help access substantial data from past projects and will help in implementing and maintaining these data sources for SUNRISE project in FAIR format. IOM is currently partner of many ongoing nano safety related EU projects including SAbyNA, SBD4Nano, SUNSHINE; and AURORA which is specifically looking at the early life health effects of micro and nano plastics. Hence IOM’s experts will bring extensive knowledge and experience for the risk management of the new class of materials, and will play crucial role in the management and FAIR implementation strategy of the data in SUNRISE project.

Meet the IOM team

Prof Lang Tran is Principal Computational Toxicologist in IOM's Research Division. His interests include toxicology and ecotoxicology. He is an Expert Consultant on the SAFEnano Initiative and is a founding member of SnIRC(Safety of Nanomaterials Interdisciplinary Research Centre).

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Shahzad Rashid is a Senior Systems Analyst and Programmer in IOM's Research Group. His background is in Computer Sciences with extensive experience in full life-cycle application development, data gathering, data processing, data management and general systems integration and development. He is involved in development, management, and support of various European Commission sponsored (FP7, H2020) projects.

Susan Young is our Research Operations Manager and leads the Research Operations Group. She has an overview of the financial, administrative and operational performance of the Research Group and has more than 30 years’ experience working in a scientific environment, 25 of which have been in managing research quality and processes. She works closely with our research scientists on project management and coordination of all research and large consulting projects to ensure the projects run smoothly, efficiently and are delivered on time and budget.

Helena Copsey is a Insights and Innovation Analyst in IOM’s Research Group. Her background is in Microbiology and Philosophy, with a particular interest in public health and the interconnection of science and society. Helena has worked on various projects investigating the relationship between the human microbiome and cancer, the potential of AI to analyse academic literature and the social and scientific impacts of COVID-19.

Finlay Brooker is a Data Analyst and Programmer in IOM's Research Group. His background is in Computer Sciences with experience in agile and full life-cycle application development, databases, data processing and web development.