Dear friends and colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit an abstract to our session at the EMC 2024 Congress next August in Dublin! The deadline for abstract submission is March 22. Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin! All the best! The chairs of the session Alessandro F. Gualtieri (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Andrij Holian (University of Montana, USA) Melanie Kah (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Alessandro Pacella (La Sapienza, University of Roma, Italy) Jasmine Rita Petriglieri (University of Torino, Italy) Congress: European Mineralogical Conference 2024 Venue: Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) - 18-23 August 2024 Session: Medical mineralogy and hazardous natural materials. State of the art and future trends Medical Mineralogy is a highly multidisciplinary field of research promoting cross investigations aimed at understanding the interaction between natural materials and humans. This research field is focused on the bio-chemical processes responsible for health conditions, both normal and pathological, that involve the interaction of inorganic species and organic molecules with natural materials. To do this, different approaches are followed including kinetic studies of mineral reactions under conditions relevant to the human body, molecular modelling studies, and studies aimed at evaluating environmental factors as causes for exposure modes and activating diseases in genetically predisposed subjects. Special attention is devoted to the crystal-chemical-physical properties of natural materials responsible for the onset of adverse effects in vitro and in vivo. This interdisciplinary session welcomes contributions on natural toxicants causing exposure to humans such as respirable crystalline silica, asbestos and mineral fibres in general, metals'-containing nanoparticulate, metals in soils and water, and much more. The outcome of this session should be of broad inspiration for future research lines directed towards a multidisciplinary action, involving different perspectives such as medicine, toxicology, bio-chemistry, mineralogy, crystallography, and many more. Sharing different perspectives and working in synergy with a multidisciplinary view is not just a need, but the awareness that it is the only key to disclosing the very mechanisms of carcinogenesis prompted by natural toxicants.