title: Twenty-Year History of the Organization of the International Interdisciplinary Toxicological Conferences TOXCON.
abstract: This is an overview and assessment of the value of the International Interdisciplinary Toxicological Conferences TOXCON, which have been organized reciprocally in Slovakia and the Czech Republic since 1996. Characterization of the individual annual conferences and the results of mutual cooperation between the Slovak Toxicology Society (SETOX) and the Toxicological Section of the Czech Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně (TS ČSEKFT ČLS JEP) are presented. Moreover, cooperation and common efforts to promote toxicology as a modern interdisciplinary subject with toxicological organizations from the Visegrad Group (V4) and within the Federation of European Societies of Toxicology EUROTOX are also highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 16 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ujházy
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 16 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Navarová
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 16 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Marián
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zemánek
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 16 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dubovický
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 16 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Mojmír
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mach
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history*; D018153:Czech Republic; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D018154:Slovakia; D014116:Toxicology / Q000266:history*