News
20 Dec 2024
Season's Greetings
The first year of my function as SCAHT Director has now come to an end. Within the course of this year, I interacted with many of you on the various topics related to the SCAHT ...
4 Oct 2024
Ellen Fritsche appointed as Editorial Board Member of new Elesevier NAM Journal
The use of animals for toxicological testing of chemicals and biomedical research is increasingly criticized because of ethical concerns regarding animal welfare as well as given scientific flaws due to lack of human relevance ...
23 Aug 2024
Frontiers has published "Recommendations for the EU roadmap to accelerate the transition towards phasing out animal testing for chemical safety assessments"
Further information can be found here.
12 Aug 2024
The new deadline for the MAS Toxicology is 31 August 2024!
Further information can be found here
25 Jun 2024
Prof. Ellen Fritsche, the new SCAHT Director, has been awarded with the Poulsson Prize
Prof. Ellen Fritsche has contributed to the scientific development of alternative methods to traditional animal tests, especially of methods for studying neurotoxicity during development. Furthermore, she has brought such methods into the process in the OECD system for international accept of such methods. She has inspired Norwegian scientists to go into research concerning these methods. She lea…
5 Apr 2024
SCAHT represented in the steering committee and with a presentation at DNT5 Conference in Konstanz
SCAHT Director Ellen Fritsche is member of the steering committee, session chair and will give a presentation at the DNT5 Conference which will take place on 7 - 10 April in Konstanz, Germany ...
5 Apr 2024
Flash report of EPAA NAMs Designathon Workshop now online
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) Deputy Director-General Salla Saastamoinen opened the EPAA NAMs Designathon Workshop, which took place at the JRC in Ispra on 20th March 2024 ...
4 Apr 2024
SCAHT Director Ellen Fritsche is participating in panel discussion on "Regulatory acceptance of NAMs — How to define criteria ?" on 25 April
In order to contribute to greater acceptance of NAMs (reliability, robustness and method validation), the Pro Anima Scientific Committee, supported by PARC and the FC3R, is organizing and leading a series of discussions with key players (researchers, industry, regulators) ...
12 Feb 2024
Martin Wilks, the founding SCAHT Director, said "Goodbye"
To mark the farewell of Prof Dr Martin Wilks, the founding Director of the SCAHT who retired at the end of January 2024, the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Basel and the SCAHT organised a half-day scientific symposium on 19 January 2024, which was very well received ...
25 Jan 2024
Congratulations to Prof Nancy Hopf
Appointment as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne in December 2023.