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"MayaTech recognizes that nanotechnology offers exciting possibilities,"says Jean-Marie Mayas, Ph.D., president and CEO of The MayaTech Corporation."In keeping with our focus on public health, we intend to address the need forresearch and information that provides adequate assessment of the health andenvironmental benefits and risks of this emerging technology."
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NSTA, led by MayaTech Science Monitor Dyneisha Felder and Health PolicyAdvisor Kerri McGowan Lowrey, J.D., M.P.H., is composed of social scienceresearch and evaluation professionals with expertise in health law andregulation, bioethics, and policy. Building on MayaTech's expertise inresearch and evaluation, NSTA is creating a database that will offer clientsaccess to a compilation of reliable information on nano ethical, legal, andsocial implications (NELSI) issues. In addition, a free, online databaseoffers Web users information on nanotechnology conferences and events atTheConferenceDesk.com.
"We are poised to assist in the monitoring and development of Federal andstate law, regulation, and policy related to nanotechnology research,products, health safety, and components," says Lowrey. "We have much to offeras national and international consensus of nanotechnology risk and languagebegins to take shape."
As members of the national and international community are working todiscover the first breakthrough product or application that will establishnanotechnology as a household term, MayaTech is enhancing the currentknowledge base in preparation for that event.
"Nanotechnology presents unlimited possibilities to revolutionize the waywe think of science," says Felder. "The hope of one day being able toselectively target a single cancer cell or to regenerate tissue by controllingcell behavior is within grasp if we can settle issues around proper riskassessment and NELSI."
The MayaTech Corporation is a diversified professional and technicalservices company that provides applied social science research and evaluation,conference and logistics management, information development anddissemination, technical assistance and training, and internationaldevelopment services to public and private sector clients.
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