The Sixth Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors (EED) will be held June 8-13, 2008, in a beautiful and comfortable resort setting; Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire. This conference will mark the 10th anniversary of the first GRC on EED. We will highlight the important advances over the past ten years and hope to help shape the next decade of research. Speakers will include leading scientists from the US, Japan and Europe, as well as young scientists who have recently reported exciting findings.

The 2008 conference is framed around five Specific Aims:

1. To bring together national and international leaders in EED research in a meeting format that promotes learning and open discussion of hypotheses and knowledge gaps and that encourages collaborative research;
2. To highlight the important milestones in EED research since the first GRC on EED in 1998, emphasizing new developments that may guide research in this area over the next ten years;
3. To focus on effects of EED across the lifespan (prenatal, early childhood, puberty, midlife and old age) in a range of model systems;
4. To highlight novel mechanisms, new endpoints and new environmental agents currently being investigated as potential EEDs, and to expand EED exposure assessment;
5. To encourage participation of trainees and other young scientists in EED research.

This GRC will have a strong emphasis on reproductive science and clinical translation of new science. The conferences will highlight the most up-to-date science through discussions of new and proposed mechanisms of action (Monday morning’s session discusses classical and novel mechanisms of EED), new endpoints under investigation as targets of EED (Classical and novel endpoints for EED, Monday afternoon’s session), and new methods for evaluating human health risk from EED exposure (Wednesday morning’s session is on mixtures and other challenges to risk assessment). We encourage trainees and other young scientists to apply, and are seeking funds to support these emerging scientists.