News & Events

This event is designed to educate the next generation of scientists committed to advancing science ethically using non-animal methods for research and testing. The program provides an overview of in vitro, in silico, and in chemico approaches and their many applications in basic, translational, and regulatory science to replace animals. Attendees will participate in scientific talks, career development workshops, poster presentations, demonstrations, networking opportunities, etc.

The 22nd International Congress of the European Society of Toxicology In Vitro (ESTIV 2024) will be  themed 'Application of NAMs in Drug Discovery and Drug and Chemical Safety Assessment'.

The ESTIV congress will start with a pre-congress workshop and will offer 15 scientific sessions, and lunch sessions hosted by industry sponsors and non-profit organisations. More information will follow soon, as the congress program is still developing.

Deadline for abstract submission: 16 October 2023.

This event will provide junior engineers, early researchers and medical doctors with an integrative view of state-of-the-art research for in silico medicine, following a complete pipeline from basic science and clinical needs, to model application.

The key methodological and technological concepts are enriched by afternoon hands-on sessions that stand for 15,5 hours of transversal training in in silico medicine technologies.

Within this 1st WI3R symposium the German Research Foundation (DFG) will grant the Ursula M. Händel Prize to scientists who have made exemplary and sustained efforts to improve the welfare of animals in research. In particular, this includes the development of methods that contribute to the reduction, refinement and replacement of animal experiments. The €80,000 Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize is currently the largest prize of its kind in Germany, awarded every two years.

Save the date for the MPS World Summit 2024, organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), with the support of more than forty organizations.

More information will follow soon.

IC-3Rs organizes a webinar series on the 4Rs (Replacement, Refinement, Reduction & Responsibility). The fourth webinar will welcome Prof. Dr. Sophie Hernot who will discuss 'The retrospective analysis as important tool for all stakeholders'.

Registration is free of charge but mandatory.

During this webinar session, we will zoom in on the use of 3D Models to study Tumor Development and Alcohol Use Disorder. Two speakers from RE-Place database will present their work: Dr. Cyril Corbet is a Principal Investigator, FNRS Research Associate, at the Pole of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique and Ami Gloria Toulehohoun is a PhD Student in at the IREC institute.

The 3Rs Centre Utrecht and the Transition to Animal-free Innovations are organising  together with TPI-Utrecht and the National Committee for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes, a conference aiming to connect NAMs to the 3Rs framework, exploring the best way forward for human-based biomedical basic and translational science.

The programme of the conference will soon be posted and will consist of presentations and (interactive) panel discussions in multiple thematic sessions.