AltTox Digest
October/November 2011

AltTox Management Team Welcomes New Members

AltTox is pleased to welcome Rodger Curren of the American Society for Computational and Cellular Toxicology (ASCCT) and Kate Willett of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to the AltTox Management Team. They join the current members George Daston of Procter & Gamble and Martin Stephens of the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. AltTox was founded by Procter & Gamble and the Humane Society of the United States in 2007 as a communication and informational hub on non-animal methods of toxicity testing.

Members of the toxicology community know Rodger Curren primarily from his role as President of the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS), which advances in vitro testing through contract testing, training workshops, involvement in test development and validation, and other means. He has broadened his advocacy of in vitro methods through his leadership of the ASCCT, a professional society centered on non-animal approaches to toxicity assessment. Rodger is also a member of the AltTox Editorial Board.

Kate Willett is Director, Regulatory Toxicology, Risk Assessment and Alternatives for the HSUS. A geneticist by training, Kate has authored a number of scientific publications, and has been a tireless advocate for animal testing alternatives in the United States and internationally.

The Management Team is part of the broader AltTox group, which includes Editorial Board members (Joss Bessems, Ed Carney, Sandra Coecke, Emanuela Corsini, William Dressler, Ian Kimber, Hajime Kojima, Albert Li, William Mundy, Horst Spielmann, and Grace Tier, as well as Curren, Daston, Stephens, and Willett), our Contributing Editor, Sherry Ward, and Webmaster, Loree Talley.

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Forum Postings

Some of the recent messages in the AltTox Forum include the following:

• New AXLR8 Report: Alternative Testing Strategies - Progress Report 2011
• REACH 2013: How to get the Best Out of SIEFs and Consortia webinar, 7 Dec
• EPA Guidance Document for Waiving or Bridging of Mammalian Acute Toxicity Tests
• European research initiative for alternative methods publishes first report
• diXa a new European toxico-genomics (TGX) database
• Save the date - Evidence-Based Toxicology Workshop
• 50^th Anniversary Toxicological Sciences - free review articles on new methods
• NC3Rs e-newsletter - Issue 38 - David Sainsbury Fellowships & 3Rs Prize
• OECD looking for published or unpublished data from Cell Transformation Assays
• Patient derived stem cells being developed into clinical trial in a test tube
• EDQM Alternatives to Animal Testing Conference Proceedings

Be sure to visit the AltTox Forum and respond to previous postings, or post a new message.

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New and Updated Information

The AltTox.org Management Team and Editorial Board strive to give the AltTox community the most up-to-date summary information related to non-animal methods of toxicity testing. Check out our latest material:

In the Spotlight

• Open Innovation Part I: The NC3Rs Programme CRACK IT

The Way Forward

• Alternative Approaches for the Identification of Carcinogens are Closer than Usually Thought, but the Present Strategies and Regulations Need to be Updated by Romualdo Benigni

Toxicity Testing Resource Center

• Informational Resources
• Meetings & Events
• Databases
• In Vitro Testing & Other Services
• Testing Supplies, Cells, Tissues, Software

Upcoming Events

Here are some of the many upcoming events and deadlines listed on AltTox that may be of interest to the AltTox community:

• ASCB 51^st Annual Meeting, December 3-7, 2011, Denver, Colorado, US
• Planning for REACH 2013: How to get the Best Out of SIEFs and Consortia, December 7, 2011, Free Webinar
• NAS Workshop: Emerging Technologies for Measuring Individual Exposomes, December 8-9, 2011, Washington, DC, US
• Cell Symposia: Stem Cell Programming & Reprogramming, December 8-10, 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
• INVITROM Symposium: 3D in vitro models: The real thing or an eye catcher?, December 12, 2011, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• NTP Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting, December 15-16, 2011, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, US
• Current Perspectives and New Directions Using the BCOP Assay: Applications in the Regulatory Arena, December 15, 2011, Webinar
• IIVS Practical Methods for In Vitro Toxicology Workshop, January 23-26, 2012, Gaithersburg, Maryland, US
• Evidence-Based Toxicology for the 21^st Century: Opportunities and Challenges, January 24-25, 2012, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, US (no website yet)
• ADMET, PK/TK, and Drug Metabolism, January 24-25, 2012, Brussels, Belgium
• NC3Rs Annual Science Review 2012, January 25, 2012, London, England, UK. By invitation only
• 7^th Annual International Conference on Predictive Human Toxicity and ADME/Tox Studies, January 26-27, 2012, Brussels, Belgium
• 37^th Annual Winter Meeting of The Toxicology Forum, January 30-February 2, 2012, Washington, DC, US

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