National Toxicology Program

1. Websites
2. Reports
3. Peer-Reviewed Publications

Websites

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIEHS/NIH)

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NIOHS/CDC)

National Center for Toxicological Research of the Food and Drug Administration (NCTR/FDA)

NNI Environment and Health Safety Issues

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Center For Environmental Research: Nanotechnology Activities

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Nanotechnology Portal

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Rice University-Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN)

International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON)

European Union Nanotechnology Gateway

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars-Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies

Environmental Defense

Life Sciences Institute Health and Environment Sciences Institute

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials

Reports

NNI Strategic Plan and budget

Nanotechnology: A Research Strategy for Addressing Risk; Andrew Maynard, Woodrow Wilson Center¿s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. 2006

Developing Experimental Approaches for the Evaluation of Toxicological Interactions of Nanoscale Materials - 2004

UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Report on Nanoparticles - 2004

Swiss RE report-Nanotechnology-Small Matter, Many Unknowns

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Bucher J and Colvin V (2005) Toxicology and biological interactions of nanomaterials: An overview. In: ACS Symposium Series 890: Nanotechnology and the Environment - Applications and Implications. Editors: Karn B, Masciangioli T, Zhang W, Colvin V, Alivisatos P.

Colvin V (2003) The potential environmental impact of engineered nanomaterials. Nature Biotechnology 21(10): 1166-1170.

Gopee NV, Roberts DW, Webb P, Cozart CR, Siitonen PH, Warbritton AR, Yu WW, Colvin VL, Walker NJ, Howard PC (2007) Migration of intradermally injected quantum dots to sentinel organs in mice. Toxicol Sci. Jul;98(1): 249-57.

Hood E (2004) Nanotechnology: Looking as we leap. EHP 112(13) A740-A749.

Hosapple MP, Farland W, Landry TD, et al. (2005) Research strategies for safety evaluation of nanomaterials, Part II: Toxicological and safety evaluation of nanomaterials, current challenges and data needs. Tox Sci 88(1): 12-17.

Maynard AD, Aitken RJ, Butz T, Colvin V, Donaldson K, Oberdörster G, Philbert MA, Ryan J, Seaton A, Stone V, Tinkle SS, Tran L, Walker NJ, Warheit DB (2006) Safe handling of nanotechnology. Nature. Nov 16;444(7117): 267-9.

McNeil S (2005) Nanotechnology for the biologist. J Leukoc Biol 78: 585-594 Oberdörster G, Maynard A, Donaldson K, et al. (2005) Principles for characterizing the potential human health effects from exposure to nanomaterials: elements of a screening strategy. Part and Fibre Toxicol 2:8.

Oberdörster G, Oberdörster E, Oberdörster J (2005) Nanotoxicology: An emerging discipline evolving from studies of ultrafine particles. EHP 113(7): 823-839.

Thomas K and Sayre P (2005) Research strategies for safety evaluation of nanomaterials, Part 1: Evaluating the human health implications of exposure to nanoscale materials. Tox Sci 87(2): 316-321.

Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Research Publications database. Summaries (abstracts) and citations for research papers related to the EHS implications of nanoscale materials. This database is based at the International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON ) website developed initially by Dr. Tim Borges and Ms. LeeAnn Wilson at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.