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Safety Assessment of Cosmetic Ingredients and Formulations

 
  March 04, 2010  
     
 
CfPA - The Center for Professional Advancement, New Brunswick, NJ
June 28-29, 2010


Who Should Attend
This course will be valuable to professionals in the cosmetic and personal care or related industries who specialize in the following disciplines, as well as groups and companies who provide services in these areas:

  • Research and Development
  • Safety Assessment
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Formulations Development
  • Product Development

Description
This two day comprehensive course is aimed at providing the spectrum of reasons, rationale, tools and approaches to test the safety of ingredients and formulations in the cosmetic and personal care industry.

In the current environment of establishing regulations and environmental issues awareness, an effort is put together to offer guidance to professionals in the industry who are concerned with present approaches and future implications.

With the unique position of this industry ban of testing on animals as well as the emergence of REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals) this course is designed to present key parties involved and sources of information.

The core of this course will focus on currently available methodologies, their scope and limitations.

 
 
Organized by: CfPA - The Center for Professional Advancement
Invited Speakers: Nava Dayan, Ph.D.; Skin Care Research Expert

Dr. Nava Dayan earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem specializing in skin delivery. She is currently an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University, and the R&D Director at Lipo Chemicals Inc. During her 22 years of experience she has specialized in a variety of areas related to skin treatment:

  • The research and understanding of the interaction between topically applied compounds
    and the skin
  • Findings in skin biochemistry and especially the upper layer of the skin- 
    the stratum corneum
  • Delivery of active compounds into and through the skin and the development of delivery 
    systems to facilitate transport, improve bio-availability and reduce toxicity
  • Design and development of topically applied formulations
  • Design of clinical studies to substantiate market claims and to assure safety
  • Academic teaching and lecturing
  • Industrial experience in both development of active compounds, delivery systems
    and finished formulations
  • Skin absorption studies in vivo and in vitro for safety/efficacy assessment
  • In vitro methodologies for safety assessment of topically applied compounds

Dr. Dayan has received numerous awards of excellence for various papers she has authored. She is the author and coauthor more then 100 publications including book chapters and was granted 7 patents. She is also the editor of the “Skin Aging Hand Book” published by Elsevier. Dr. Dayan is a member of the Dermatopharmaceutics Focus Group, and the Abstract Review Committee for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and the Consumer Products Group of the International Controlled Release Society (CRS). She is serves on boards of the NY Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, CAAT at John Hopkins University and Health Beauty America Expo. Dr. Dayan chairs the Annual Cosmeceuticals Summit Symposium. She teaches at Rutgers University and is the Director of a variety of courses at the Center for Professional Advancement.
 
Deadline for Abstracts: n/a
 
Registration: Please click here for registration information.
E-mail: sberg@cfpa.com
 
   
 
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