May 2018

Holger Behrsing, PhD, Presenting at SIVB, June 5th, 2018

May 30, 2018
Our very own Holger Behrsing, PhD, will be presenting at SIVB's Annual Meeting in St. Louis.  His presentation on Tuesday, June 5th is titled "Pragmatic Use of State-of-the-Art Lung Models to Evaluate Exposure-induced, Adverse Pulmonary Effects" and will provide an overview of in vitro/ex vivo pulmonary models and how they can be incorporated into a screening/testing strategy for chemicals that can include more complex human pulmonary adverse events that are evaluable in modern 3D systems. Read More...

ASCCT Abstract Submission and Registration Now Open!

May 23, 2018
Registration is now open for the 7th Annual ASCCT Meeting - Predictive Toxicology: Strategies for Implementing New Approaches - being held September 11-12, 2018, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Learn More...

EU Parliament Calls for UN Convention on Use of Animal Testing for Cosmetics

May 8, 2018
The non-binding resolution calls for a diplomatic push towards a global animal testing ban for cosmetics to be in place by 2023. Europe fully banned cosmetic animal testing in 2013, but it is still permitted in 80% of countries worldwide. Read article....