ALTWEB Newsletter
January 2006

CAAT Grants: 2007-2008 Call for Proposals

  1. CELEBRATE CAAT's 25 YEARS OF HUMANE SCIENCE
  2. TestSmart DNT Conference and poster deadline extenstion
  3. Toxicity Testing for Assessment of Environmental Agents: Interim Report
  4. ACLAM Calls for Research Proposals in Lab Animal Science
  5. NIH Requests Information on Standards for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
  6. Several Articles Available on REACH Chemicals Legislation in the Europrean Parliament

CAAT- 25 years

CELEBRATE CAAT's 25 YEARS OF HUMANE SCIENCE

Save the Date:

The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing will hold its 25th anniversary symposium and dinner on November 2nd, 2006, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Please save this date and plan to join us for this landmark occasion in CAAT's history as we will celebrate achievement and consider CAAT's future as a leader in the of humane science.

For more information, or to become a sponsor of our anniversary events, please contact Fiona Newton at (410) 223-1614 or e-mail fnewton@jhsph.edu.

TestSmart DNT logo

TestSmart DNT Conference and poster deadline extenstion

TestSmart DNT: Creating a Humane and Efficient Approach to Developmental Neurotoxicity Testing
Monday, March 13, 2006
For more information, see: http://caat.jhsph.edu/dnt/index.htm.

NOTE: The deadline for submission of poster presentations has been extended to February 15, 2006.

For more upcoming meetings, see: http://altweb.jhsph.edu/

The National Academies

Toxicity Testing for Assessment of Environmental Agents: Interim Report (2006)

Click here for the report

ACLAM

ACLAM Calls for Research Proposals in Lab Animal Science

The deadline for pre-proposals is February 2, 2006.

Click here for more information

NIH

NIH Requests Information on Standards for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

The submission deadline is February 28, 2006.

For more information, visit the NIH website here

REACH Chemicals

Several Articles Available on REACH Chemicals Legislation in the Europrean Parliament