CAS Chemical Safety Library™ Advisory Panel
The CAS Chemical Safety Library is overseen by an advisory panel of experts from CAS and others in the commercial, academic, and non-profit sectors.
CAS Chemical Safety Library Advisory Panel
- Grace Baysinger, Stanford University (Emerita)
- George Athens, Dow
- Christopher Kolodziej, University of California, Los Angeles
- Thomas Vickery, Merck
- Meghan Lafferty, University of Minnesota
- Kimi Brown, SciShield
- Chengjian Zhu, Nanjing University
- Gabrielle Whittick, GMW Consulting
- Eric Margelefsky, Merck
- Qiong Yuan, CAS
The CAS Chemical Safety Library Advisory Panel also recognizes contributions from:
- Michael Dennis, CAS
- Kathy Gibson, Helio Consulting
- Becky Upton, Pistoia Alliance
- Carmen Nitsche, The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
- Alison Frontier, University of Rochester
- Ramesh Durvasula, Eli Lilly and Company
- Ralph Stuart (A groundbreaker in EHS and leader in ACS passed away on December 6, 2023)
- Mark Manfredi, Bristol Myers Squibb (Emeritus)
- Thomas Vickery, Merck (Emeritus)
For questions about the CAS Chemical Safety Library, email csladvisorypanel@cas.org.
About the CAS Chemical Safety Library
The CAS Chemical Safety Library is a repository for the scientific community to capture and confidentially share hazardous reaction information from real-world laboratory experiences to improve safety and reduce incidents across the chemical enterprise. A brief history of the repository:
- Fall 2016
A presentation by Mark Manfredi (Bristol Myers Squibb) at ACS Fall 2016, “Ensuring That Lessons Learned Are Not Forgotten, Leveraging ELN to Transform the Safety Paradigm”, inspired the idea for a simple crowd-sourced hazardous reaction data collection system. Further championed by Ramesh Durvasula (Lilly), the Pistoia Alliance led the development of the Chemical Safety Library.
- Spring 2017
Hazardous reaction information from Bristol Myers Squibb was added to the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library, which was then expanded through datathons, hackathons, and data extraction from C&EN Safety Letters and other sources.
- Winter 2018 - Spring 2020
A simplified submission system helped the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library reach 138 records. Data was made available to users through .csv file requests and the entire library was shared with PubChem (National Library of Medicine).
- Summer 2020 - Spring 2024
CAS began hosting the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library and established the Advisory Panel, chaired by Carmen Nitsche (The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre) and Mark Manfredi (Bristol Myers Squibb) to drive future development. A strategic partnership with the Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) was also established and extended outreach to academia. A reusable data collection protocol (Chemical Safety Library in a Box) was developed through data mining projects with Purdue University and the University of Minnesota.
- Spring 2024
Chemical Safety Library in a Box was deployed at UCLA and promoted at CSHEMA Safety Week. In March, a datathon was hosted at ACS Spring 2024 to expand the information collection. The resource was officially renamed “CAS Chemical Safety Library” after ownership was transferred from the Pistoia Alliance to CAS. Today, the CAS Chemical Safety Library includes more than 500 records.