LSRO Announces Achievements

BETHESDA, Md.—The Life Sciences Research Office (LSRO), a non-profit organization, announced several new initiatives. First, LSRO created the Center for Emerging Issues in Science (CEIS), a group of leading experts in science, technology, regulatory affairs and business to help companies assess implications of scientific work. CEIS’s inaugural subject is nutrigenomics, interactions between diet and gene expression, which it determined will likely lead to personalized diets and new business opportunities for food producers and health care providers. Another LSRO resource is its Center for Health Risk Analysis (CHRA), designed to examine critical and emerging issues in risk analysis. Additionally, LSRO partnered this year with MediRegs to comarket the Food Regulation Library, a comprehensive food regulatory database.

LSRO staffers have had several achievements this year, including: a talk by Michael C. Falk, Ph.D., LSRO executive director, to the Tech Council of Maryland about nutrigenomics; a discussion by Catherine St. Hilaire, Ph.D., senior scientist with CHRA, on risk analysis for the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society; and a research abstract award presented to Catherine J. Klein, Ph.D., LSRO senior scientist, from the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

For more information, visit www.LSRO.org or Booth #6027 at SupplySide West.