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The topics covered during this congress include:

• Disease models, microphysiological systems;
• Animal-free human based cell culture;
• Recombinant antibodies;
• Development and implementation of NAMs;
• In silico models and new approaches for biomedical research;
• In vitro toxicology, efficacy testing and safety testing.

Deadline to submit abstract for oral and poster presentations: May 20th 2022

This webinar will discuss the first non-animal methods approved by OECD guidelines for eye hazard identification: GL 467 and TG 492B.

The webinar will be divided in 3 parts:

• Draize eye test Reference Database
• OECD Guideline 467 on Defined Approaches for Serious Eye Damage and Eye Irritation
• OECD Test Guideline 492B on Reconstructed Human Cornea-like Epithelium (RHCE) Test Method for Eye Hazard Identification.

The VIB and Cell Press are co-organizing the Cell-NERF symposium on 'Neurotechnologies'.

Internationally renowned speakers will present their recent work covering the following topics:

• Imaging and electrophysiological approaches
• Cell and tissue engineering
• Optical manipulation of circuits and cells
• Nanotechnology
• Neuroengineering
• Neuroethics
• Brain-Machine Interfaces
• ...

During this webinar, Katie Paul Friedman from Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure (EPA) and George E. N. Kass from European Food Safety Authorities will address the following topics:

- Expectations for new approach methods performance in predicting effects in repeat dose animal studies
- EFSA's roadmap on NAMs and related case studies

During this training, participants will learn more about novel methodologies genetic toxicology and get hands-on experience with some of these new methods.

During this webinar, the following topics will be discussed:

- Implementation and regulatory acceptance of non-animal testing in veterinary vaccines
- Animal batch safety test
- Regulatory batch release testing of veterinary vaccines (Chinese regulatory agency)
- Rabies in vitro potency test
- General toxicity test on Clostridials
- Tetanus in vitro potency test
- ...

This conference will give an overview of the activities linked to the development of NAMs for chemical safety testing. Conference topics include:

- Variability and Relevance of Traditional Toxicity Tests
- Evolution of Validation and Scientific Confidence Frameworks
- Breakout groups discussing Variability and Relevance of Traditional Toxicity Tests and Feedback on EPA Scientific Confidence Framework

The conference is open to academic scientists, researchers and research scholars. Different topics around Microfluidics and Organs-on-a-Chip will be discussed (e.g. 3D cell culture, toxicity screening, lung-on-a-chip, practical challenges encountered in the development of organs-on-a-chip, etc.). A poster session will also be organised.

Deadline for abstract submission: 16 August 2022