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Nico Vermeulen in book 'Chemistry: for a safe and sustainable environment'

In the context of the International Year of Chemistry, the Dutch Society for Chemical Industry (VNCI) and NWO Chemical & Exact Sciences recently published jointly a booklet with extensive interviews with eight Dutch scientists in Chemistry.

In this context, Nico Vermeulen (professor of Molecular Toxicology, Department of Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences (CPS)), was interviewed about 'Exciting challenges of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)'. Clinically relevant adverse drug reactions are occurring very frequently (6-8 % of hospitalizations are related to ADRs) and, remarkably often still unpredictable on the basis of extensive pre-clinical research. Moreover, the susceptibility of side effects of drugs is varying significantly amongst individual patients treated with drugs. In current and future drug safety sciences, so-called integrative translational strategies are being developed to tackle this drug-related problem with which worldwide millions of patients are confronted. Translational means research in the whole trajectory, i.e. from the molecular level up to and including the patient. The Molecular Toxicology group of Vermeulen is internationally leading in the area of translational drug safety sciences, both in research and in education.

You can download this book Chemie: voor een veilig en duurzaam leefklimaat!