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February 2010’s Alchemist Cafe
“Because I’m worth it!” but are you really?
How are cosmetics tested in Ireland before they get onto the shelves and do they really perform miracles? What about over the counter (OTC) medicines - how are these tested and approved? Functional foods are also a new group of products making medicinal claims (e.g soy protein, cranberries) - are these claims verified in controlled clinical trials?
Vanessa Hyde will talk about the current state of cosmetic, medicine and functional food testing in Ireland and de-bunk some of the myths about clinical trials. Vanessa has a background in basic and clinical sciences including 15 years experience in quality management of clinical trials in Ireland with emphasis on Good Clinical Practice (GCP). She is an experience Clinical Trials Auditor and travels to various sites worldwide to ensure trials are conducted to GCP. She is constantly in touch with leading authorities in her field of responsibility.
Date: Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Location:The Mercantile, Dame St, Dublin 2
Time: 7.30pm (Sharp)
Admission: Free - All Welcome!
In association with CPL and Discover Science & Engineering
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Thanks to our friend Marek we now have a video from July 2009:
Using stem cells for human therapy: cell replacement, drug screening
and disease modelling
Part 1, The Talk:
Part 2, The Q&A:
For more videos from previous cafes see the Alchemist TV link in the left hand menu.
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New Mailing List and Other News
Due to the sheer number of subscribers to the Alchemist Cafe mailing list we have moved it over to Google Groups. Also because of the amount of people on the list Google will not let us sign everyone up to the list automatically so if you were subscribed you will have received an email asking you to opt-in to the new mailing list. If you have not seen this email check your junk mail folder (it should be dated about the 30 April). If you can’t find the you can visit the groups home page and sign up there or email us directly at alchemistcafe@googlemail.com and we will sort you out.
You can of course keep an eye on here, the cafe’s twitter feed, RSS feed or calendar. Don’t forget you can see video from our most recent cafes here.
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*Update*
The Alchemist Cafe can also be followed now on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/alchemist_cafe
If you want to keep up with upcoming events for the Alchemist Cafe we have three new ways outside our website and mailing list. We now have an RSS feed, Live Bookmarks and an iCalendar file which you can download.
The links for both are in the menu on the left and the menu at the bottom of the page.
For details on how to use the RSS feed and Live Bookmark see our information page here. The iCalendar file is for use with various calendar programs including Google Calendar, Apple’s iCal application, Lotus Notes, Mozilla Calendar (including Mozilla Sunbird), Mulberry, Novell Evolution, WebCalendar, Windows Calendar, and to some extent Microsoft Outlook.
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