European Society of Toxicology In Vitro

Professor Horst Spielmann, former president and Honorary member of ESTIV celebrates his 80th anniversary

EURL ECVAM has just launched a call for applications for the renewal of our EURL ECVAM Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC).

Dr. Helena Kanďárová, a senior scientist at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Centre of Experimental Medicine, Bratislava and ESTIV president, is the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award for the year 2022.

ESTIV – The European Society of Toxicology in Vitro wish to express its full solidarity with Ukraine….

Please join us Thursday, February 24 for our next joint ASCCT-ESTIV webinar: Serum-Free Cultures: Why and How?, featuring Barbara Jozef, PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and Aline Chary, PhD, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).

Skin sensitization is a complex systemic process and since several years, methods to replace animal tests have been validated and adopted by the OECD in this regard. These tests can be used as part of a weight-of-evidence or integrated using a Defined Approach (DA) to assess Skin Sensitization. ….

New JRC Report “Addressing evidence needs in chemicals policy and regulation”, has been published….

Advances in Genotoxicity: News and views on the Genotoxicity testing with reconstructed skin by two industrial experts. Dr. Stefan Pfuhler, Procter and Gamble and Dr. Kerstin Reisinger, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA.