Shedding New Lights with the Breakthrough Ideas to Understand Current Trends in Modern Toxicology
Ok‐Nam Bae, Joo Young Lee · Toxicological Research · 2016
Along with the development of cutting-edge technologies in biology and chemistry, the scope and the criteria in toxicological research have been rapidly expanding (1).Under the main theme of 'New Frontier in Modern Toxicology', the 7 th International Congress of Asian Society of Toxicology (ASIATOX 2015) at Jeju Island in Korea on June 2015 provided a platform to talk about the current topics in toxicology.Recent progresses in translational, mechanistic and predictive toxicological research have been extensively discussed in various aspects including methodological, conceptual, or practical approaches.To share the scientific progresses and to increase the toxicological impact of the contents discussed in ASIATOX 2015, the editorial board of the Toxicological Research, the official journal of the Korean Society of Toxicology who co-hosted the congress with the Asian Society of Toxicology, decided to publish an ASIATOX2015 special issue, 'Understanding of current trends in modern toxicology'.We believe that this special issue will help the readers keep up with the recent advances in breakthrough ideas in modern toxicology.In this special issue, ten outstanding speakers in ASI-ATOX2015 presented their opinion in forms of either reviews or original articles, from various points of view in different toxicological research field.Among ten papers in this special issue, first three review papers are addressing the important paradigm shift in toxicological studies.In 'Advancing Risk Assessment through the Application of Systems Toxicology' by Sauer et al., authors discussed the current state of systems toxicology and the potential for its