and continuous professional education:

Professor Rakitski Valery of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Federal Centre of Hygiene and Toxicology signed a protocol of research and education and a project for collaboration with Professor Tsatsakis Aristeidis who is director of The Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Science in the medical department at the University of Crete and president of the TOXPLUS SA.  Specific areas of collaboration include developing protocols for testing and registration of chemicals according to OECD guidelines and also investigating actual problems of professional occupational diseases. Both Professor Rakitski Valery and Tsatsakis Aristeidis pointed out the importance of knowledge transfer by disseminating research results in peer reviewed publications in international journals. Furthermore Russian scientists will attend this Bionanotox congress (www.bionanotox.org) and in the same way Greek scientists will visit the Federal Centre of Hygiene and Toxicology for common projects.