The JRC's Chemical Safety and Alternative Methods Unit, which incorporates the EU Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM), is organising a JRC Summer School on the topic of "Alternative Approaches for Risk Assessment". The overall aim is to provide comprehensive training on state-of-the-art alternative (non-animal) approaches to predictive toxicology and to promote their use within modern chemical risk assessment practice. The Summer School is specifically tailored for post-graduate students (PhD/Masters) and early-career scientists working in relevant fields. It will provide valuable insights into principles and methodologies of human health and environmental risk assessment using non-animal approaches, drawing from scientific, regulatory, and industrial perspectives. Pre-registration until 14th February 2017.

SETAC Europe and EUROTOX have initiated a new collaboration with the aim of “bridging the gap between toxicology and ecotoxicology”. Three initiatives within this context have been planned for the SETAC Europe 2017 conference. Further information.  The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 23 November 2016.

The aim of the meeting is to gather researchers and scientists interested or working in the fields of experimental pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, clinical, experimental or regulatory toxicology, or in pharmaceutical medicine. Each discipline will present the opportunities and perspectives in their fields. In this context we also aim to encourage and foster the contacts between the academic, clinical and industrial sector. The official language will be English. The deadline for abstracts submission (e‐mail) will be around the 20th of March 2017.

This 3R meeting highlights challenges of serum-free cell culture. Representatives from the cell culture industry and applied scientists will throw light on current issues with both serum and its replacement. Deadline for registration: 31 March 2017.

Les participant(e)s auront l’occasion de découvrir les dernières évolutions en matière de sciences séparatives, des aspects fondamentaux aux applications les plus diverses, des couplages les plus performants aux techniques les plus prometteuses. SEP 2017 sera pour vous aussi un endroit de rencontre, de  partage d’expériences diverses, qu’elles soient industrielles, académiques ou autres.

The 2nd German Pharm-Tox Summit is a joint meeting of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT) and the 19th Annual Meeting of the Association of Clinical Pharmacology (VKliPha). For further information see flyer.

Ce cours a pour but de présenter les notions générales de toxicologie et de pharmacologie, notamment le devenir des substances dans l’organisme et leur interaction avec celui-ci. Différents mécanismes de toxicité seront présentés. Le cours est illustré par des exemples provenant des différentes disciplines de la toxicologie. L’aspect analytique sera également abordé, en particulier pour mentionner les liens avec les autres cours proposés par le ccCTA.