European Society of Toxicology In Vitro

Estiv welcomes two new corporate memebers React4life and Symrise…

The ESTIV Applied in Vitro Toxicology Course 2021 will be organized at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) in the week of October 18-22, 2021. The program of the 2021 course is shaping and the registration will open in March. For information about the scope of the course and the program, please visit the web of the 2020 course, which has been organized as an online event due to the epidemiological situation in the EU.

The CIAO project is helping to make sense of the enormous amount of biological information on COVID-19 by exploiting a well-established knowledge framework called Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP).

Remembering Robert Combes – written by Prof. Michael Balls

Dr. Sandra Coecke, the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award for the year 2020, gave recently an interview for WC11 podcast…

The OECD gives the green light to the fish cell line assay. The new OECD guideline 249 allows companies to use fish cell line testing for product development and as part of the dossiers for chemical approval.

We are excited to share, that OECD has published new important guidelines: OECD Guideline 497 and 498 related to sensitisation and phototoxicity!

Every year, large numbers of new compounds are being developed for a wide range of purposes…..