Are you part of the global technological revolution driven by nanomaterials and innovative advanced materials?
Do you see human and environmental safety as a key challenge in your R&D projects?
Are you facing the transition from animal testing toward New Approach Methodologies and Non-Animal Methods?

QSAR Lab invites you to join the shift from scattered toxicity data, complex research projects, and evolving regulatory requirements toward practical solutions that support safer innovation, global cooperation, international trade, and a faster time-to-market for new technologies and materials.

At NANO KOREA 2026, where nanotechnology and advanced material innovation take center stage, QSAR Lab presents its contribution to one of the most important challenges facing the global nano sector: how to design, assess, and commercialize materials that are not only high-performing, but also safe for people and the environment.

QSAR Lab works at the intersection of nanomaterials, advanced materials, and chemical safety. We implement NAMs for nano, with a focus on in silico safety assessment, helping companies and research organizations identify risks earlier, reduce experimental burden, and make better design decisions before costly testing begins.
To make NAMs useful in R&D, industry, and regulatory contexts, QSAR Lab emphasizes the need for better integration, validation, and equivalence of studies and data. This makes results more comparable, transparent, and fit for decision-making.

To translate this approach into practice, QSAR Lab develops and promotes solutions that connect scientific knowledge, safety data, and in silico models. This is the role of www.nams.network, an online space for NAMs for nano, which serves as a starting point for sharing expertise, use cases, services, and tools supporting nanomaterial safety assessment.
A practical example of this vision is QLmaterials, formerly nQTb, a web-based application designed to support in silico assessment and safe-by-design development of nanomaterials and advanced materials. Together, nams.network and QLmaterials show how NAMs for nano can be gradually integrated into real R&D workflows, making safety assessment more accessible and useful in the development of safer and more sustainable materials.

QLmaterials™ (formerly nQTb), is a web-based application developed to support in silico safety assessment and safe-by-design development of nanomaterials and innovative advanced materials. It translates QSAR Lab’s expertise in computational toxicology, nanoinformatics, and NAMs implementation into a practical, user-friendly tool for early-stage material assessment.
The application uses machine learning-based models built on curated experimental data to predict human-relevant toxicity endpoints for advanced materials, including engineered nanomaterials. Users can define key physicochemical properties, such as particle size, shape, surface area, and crystal structure, and generate tailored reports that support safety evaluation and regulatory documentation.
QLmaterials™ helps R&D teams, toxicologists, safety assessors, and regulatory teams identify potential risks earlier, focus laboratory testing where it is most informative, and make better design decisions before costly experimental work begins.
QLmaterials™ shows how NAMs for nano can be integrated into practical R&D workflows, supporting safer innovation, reduced testing burden, and faster development of sustainable advanced materials.

NAMs.Network™ is an open online space for New Approach Methodologies, including NAMs for nanomaterials and advanced materials. Developed by QSAR Lab, it helps transform scattered information, fragmented expertise, and evolving regulatory expectations into a more transparent, practical, and accessible ecosystem for non-animal safety assessment.
The NAMs.Network™ database brings together knowledge on NAMs, including methods under development, methods currently under validation, and approaches that are already accepted in regulatory contexts. It combines information from trusted sources such as OECD documents, ISO standards, scientific publications, EC/VAM repositories, EU project outputs, and nano-relevant AOPs.
For industry, CROs, laboratories, researchers, consortia, and regulators, NAMs.Network™ serves as a map and a starting point for finding relevant methods, understanding their maturity and applicability, identifying service and expertise providers, and building testing strategies that are better aligned with current scientific and regulatory needs.