NICEATM and ICCVAM scientists will be active participants at the Tenth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, which runs August 20-24 in Seattle, Washington. ICCVAM members will co-chair four presentation sessions and participate on roundtable panels on regulatory issues and big data. NICEATM and ICCVAM scientists will also share their […]
Presenters’ slides from the June 26-27 workshop “BioMed21 – A Human Pathway-based Approach to Disease and Medicine” are now available. The presentations from government, academic, and industry scientists addressed how to implement a human systems-biology platform for understanding disease and improving interventions. The workshop was co-organized by NICEATM and the Human Toxicology Project Consortium. In […]
Source: http://www.ecetoc.org/mediaroom/ecetoc-launches-public-directory-exposure-data-sources-exposure-tools/ The Human Exposure Assessment Tools Database (heatDB) is a resource for risk assessors to use to quickly search and locate human exposure tools and data available in the public domain…. In parallel with this database, ECETOC Technical Report no. 126 provides analysis, discussion and case studies demonstrating different uses of some the different […]
CVB NOTICE NO. 17-06: Option to Remove Back-titration Hamsters from In Vivo Potency Tests for Leptospira Serogroups Pomona and Grippotyphosa The Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) recently added CVB Notice 17-06 Option to Remove Back-titration Hamsters from In Vivo Potency Tests for Leptospira Serogroups Pomona and Grippotyphosa to its website. The purpose of this Notice […]
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/chemicals/epaa/3rs-awards_en The EPAA is proud to announce its 2017 Refinement Prize. This prize of €6000 will be granted to a laboratory technician, animal caretaker or technologist who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in implementing and raising awareness of Refinement of animal testing. The purpose of this prize is to target those actually implementing alternative approaches […]
A note from the Congress: We are sending this time sensitive invitation to invite you attend the 10th World Congress in Alternatives to be held in Seattle WA on August 20-24, 2017. A fantastic scientific program has been developed and is now available on the website. Over 68 sessions on 9 themes have been addressed […]
RFA-HL-18-022: The Impact of Microenvironment on Lung Progenitor Cell Function (R01): https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-18-022.html Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for basic research to elucidate the impact of microenvironment, which includes cellular components of the niche, extracellular matrix, and soluble factors, on lung progenitor cell phenotype and function during development, homeostasis, repair and regeneration. Multi-disciplinary […]
