<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Altweb News]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/</link><description><![CDATA[News from Altweb: the latest in information about alternatives and humane science]]></description><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2009]]></copyright><managingEditor><![CDATA[mhughes@jhsph.edu]]></managingEditor><webmaster><![CDATA[webadmin@jhsph.edu]]></webmaster><ttl>1</ttl><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:22:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SiteExecutive v2012</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Recordings Now Available from the Scientific Roadmap for the Future of Animal Free Systemic Toxicity Testing Workshop]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/roadmap_recordings.html</link><description><![CDATA[Recordings Now Available from the Scientific Roadmap for the Future of Animal Free Systemic Toxicity Testing Workshop held May 30-31, 2013 in College Park, Maryland (FDA).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/roadmap_recordings.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:20:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[INVITROM Symposium: "In Vitro Models: The Cell is the Limit?" October 16, 2013]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/invitrom_symp.html</link><description><![CDATA[INVITROM Symposium: "In Vitro Models: The Cell is the Limit?" to be held October 16, 2013 in Breda, The Netherlands.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/invitrom_symp.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:21:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EDSP Workshop Recordings Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EDSP_recordings.html</link><description><![CDATA[Recordings now available from the CAAT Co-sponsored Workshop: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Opportunities: The US Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program held on April 23-24, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EDSP_recordings.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enrichment Leadership Exchange: Call for Abstracts]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/enrichment_abstract.html</link><description><![CDATA[Enrichment Leadership Exchange: Call for Abstracts. Abstract submission deadline is July 1, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/enrichment_abstract.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:32:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advance Notice of a Funding Opportunity]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/funding_opp.html</link><description><![CDATA[Advance Notice of a Funding Opportunity soon to be offered to support the writing and publication of three reviews of health research.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/funding_opp.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:16:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Symposium on Social Housing of Laboratory Animals: August 22-23, 2013]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/social_housing_symp.html</link><description><![CDATA[Symposium on Social Housing of Laboratory Animals is being held August 22-23, 2013 at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/social_housing_symp.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:19:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Registration and Abstract Submission is now Open for the 2nd Annual ASCCT Meeting]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ascct_ann_mtg2.html</link><description><![CDATA[Registration and Abstract Submission is now Open for the 2nd Annual ASCCT Meeting.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ascct_ann_mtg2.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 20:37:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EURL ECVAM Releases Progress Report on Directives for Cosmetic Products]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/eurl_evcam_rpt.html</link><description><![CDATA[EURL ECVAM has now  released the progress report on the development, validation and regulatory acceptance of alternative methods prepared in the framework of Directive 76/768/EEC and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/eurl_evcam_rpt.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 20:25:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel: Number of Animal Experiments Up for First Time Since 2008]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/israel_exp_up.html</link><description><![CDATA[A report by the Health Ministry's council on animal experimentation shows a moderate increase in the number of animals used for experiments in Israel last year, as compared with a decrease over the previous five years.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/israel_exp_up.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 18:11:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of Systematic Toxicity Testing Workshop on May 30-31, 2013 Now Being Broadcasted as a Teleconference]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/roadmap_teleconf.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Future of Systematic Toxicity Testing Workshop on May 30-31, 2013 is Now Being Broadcasted as a Teleconference.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/roadmap_teleconf.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 17:51:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Industry Council Formed to Advance Regulatory Acceptance of Non-Animal Testing Methods]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/icaraa.html</link><description><![CDATA[ICARAA: Industry Council for the Advancement of Regulatory Acceptance of Alternatives. ICARAA was formed in response to international regulations that still require animal testing to assess the safety of cosmetic and personal care products.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/icaraa.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 20:12:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICCA-LRI & NCATS Workshop: What Is Normal? Implications for Chemical Safety Assessment]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/icca-lri_ncats_wrksp.html</link><description><![CDATA[ICCA-LRI & NCATS workshop on the provocative question of what is normal for humans regarding responses to chemical exposures.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/icca-lri_ncats_wrksp.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:54:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[SOT Medical Device Specialty Section Webinar Featuring Thomas Hartung]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/med_device_webinar.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Medical Device Specialty Section is hosting a webinar presentation by Dr. Thomas Hartung entitled “Medical device testing in vitro—pyrogenicity testing and beyond on May 24th, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/med_device_webinar.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:25:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[IIVS Webinar Series - In Vitro Phototoxicity Assays]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/iivs_webinar.html</link><description><![CDATA[IIVS Webinar Series - In Vitro Phototoxicity Assays: Wednesday June 19, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/iivs_webinar.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:23:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA Workshop--Meeting the Information Requirements of the Animal Welfare Act]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/usda_wrksp.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Animal Welfare Information Center teaches a one and a half day workshop at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, for individuals who are responsible for providing information to meet the requirements of the Animal Welfare Act.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/usda_wrksp.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:09:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Industry Evidence Sets Animal Welfare Benchmark for Short-term Toxicity Studies]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/benchmark.html</link><description><![CDATA[Industry Evidence Sets Animal Welfare Benchmark for Short-term Toxicity Studies. The maximum-tolerated dose of a drug candidate can be determined in short-term toxicity studies without exceeding a bodyweight loss of 10 per cent in rats and dogs.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/benchmark.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:01:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest Newsletter (April 2013) of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/epaa_newsletter.html</link><description><![CDATA[Latest Newsletter of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing Now Available. This issues includes: an interview with Gwenole Cozigou, an interview with Florian Vernay, and much more.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/epaa_newsletter.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:36:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ATLA Issue 41.1 Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_atla_41_1.html</link><description><![CDATA[ATLA Issue 41.1 includes an editorial titled "Computational toxicology is now inseparable from experimental toxicology" by M. Cronin, PILAS, and much more.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_atla_41_1.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:54:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New AltTox.org Newsletter Explains All the Alts]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/AltTox_newsletter.html</link><description><![CDATA[The April/May 2013 helps demystify the sometimes confusing collection of "alt" -ernatives websites—ALTEX Journal, Altweb, and AltTox.org.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/AltTox_newsletter.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:32:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CPSC Issues Guidance on Assessment of Sensitizing Substances, Requests Comment on Proposed Update to FHSA]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Asses_sensitizing_comments.html</link><description><![CDATA[In a Federal Register notice published March 12, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced new guidance to clarify the definition of 'strong sensitizer' as the term applies to substances and products regulated by the CPSC.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Asses_sensitizing_comments.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:25:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Altex Issue 30.2 (2013) Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/altex30_2.html</link><description><![CDATA[Altex Issue 30.2 (2013) Now Available. This issue of Altex includes an editorial by S. Aulock, Workshop Report, Food for Though by T. Hartung S. Hoffmann and M Stephens titled "Mechanistic validation", and much more.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/altex30_2.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:22:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcel Leist Receives Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Award]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Leist_wankel_awd.html</link><description><![CDATA[Marcel Leist, co-director of CAAT-Europe at the University of Konstanz, has been awarded the Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Award for his work on in vitro test systems in the area of reproductive toxicology.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Leist_wankel_awd.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:31:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nominations for the 2013 Lush Prize Awards  for Animal-free Toxicology Open on April 15th]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/lushprize2013.html</link><description><![CDATA[The 2013 Lush Prize open for nominations on April 15th. A joint project between the global handmade cosmetics company and research group Ethical Consumer, the prize is designed to help change the face of safety testing across the world.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/lushprize2013.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:38:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Op-Ed on Alternatives to Animal Testing from Paul Locke of CAAT]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/animal_testing_unnecessary.html</link><description><![CDATA[Op-Ed on Alternatives to Animal Testing from Paul Locke of CAAT.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/animal_testing_unnecessary.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:32:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Vitro Medical Device Testing Symposium December 10-11, 2013]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/med_device_symp.html</link><description><![CDATA[This symposium, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), will examine how the National Academy of Sciences, Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century can be applied to Medical Devices.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/med_device_symp.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:54:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latest Edition of FRAME News is Now Available Online]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/frame70.html</link><description><![CDATA[The latest Edition of FRAME News is Now Available Online. Features include: Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum launched, Public attitudes to animal research, Consultation on Home Office guidance, Free access to early issues of ATLA, and much more.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/frame70.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:12:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The XIII International Congress on Toxicology, to be held June 30-July 4, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ict.html</link><description><![CDATA[The XIII International Congress on Toxicology, to be held June 30-July 4, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ict.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:38:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific Roadmap for the Future of Animal-free Systemic Toxicity Testing Workshop May 30-31, 2013]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/roadmap.html</link><description><![CDATA[The May 30-31 workshop will provide a similar forum but in a US setting. The program includes ample opportunity for public discussion of the roadmap, as well as its possible updating in light of more recent developments.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/roadmap.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:15:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Test For Skin Sensitization Without Using Animals]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/skin_sensitization_testing_without_animals.html</link><description><![CDATA[In an advance in efforts to reduce the use of animals in testing new cosmetic and other product ingredients for skin allergies, scientists are describing a new, highly accurate non-animal test for these skin-sensitizers.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/skin_sensitization_testing_without_animals.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:14:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin L. Stephens Receives Society of Toxicology Enhancement of Animal Welfare Award]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/M_Stephens_SOT_Enhancement_Anm_Welfare_Awd.html</link><description><![CDATA[Martin L. Stephens, PhD, was awarded the 2013 Society of Toxicology Enhancement of Animal Welfare Award, becoming the third member of CAAT to receive the honor. Alan Goldberg and Thomas Hartung were earlier recipients.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/M_Stephens_SOT_Enhancement_Anm_Welfare_Awd.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:29:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNT4 Call for Abstracts: Deadline December 31, 2013]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/dnt4_call_for_abstracts.html</link><description><![CDATA[DNT4 Call for Abstracts: Deadline December 31, 2013]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/dnt4_call_for_abstracts.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:49:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Developing Microphysiological Systems for Use as Regulatory Tools- Challenges and Opportunities]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/developing_microphysiological_systems_workshop.html</link><description><![CDATA[Developing Microphysiological Systems for Use as Regulatory Tools- Challenges and Opportunities on May 10, 2013 in Silver Spring, MD]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/developing_microphysiological_systems_workshop.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:11:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2014 CAAT Science-based Refinement Awards: Call for Proposals]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/AWE_call_for_proposals_2014.html</link><description><![CDATA[2014 CAAT Science-based Refinement Awards: Call for Proposals. The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) now is accepting proposals for the 2014 Science-based Refinement Awards (formerly the Animal Welfare Enhancement Awards).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/AWE_call_for_proposals_2014.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:21:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Bans Cosmetics with Animal-tested Ingredients]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EU_bans_cosmetics_with_anim_tested_ingredients.html</link><description><![CDATA[EU Bans Cosmetics with Animal-tested Ingredients. The European Union banned the sale of new cosmetic products containing ingredients tested on animals with immediate effect Monday.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EU_bans_cosmetics_with_anim_tested_ingredients.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:48:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[RSPCA/AHVLA Scientific Meeting on Welfare of Agricultural Animals in Research: Cattle, Goats, Pigs, and Sheep]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/RSPCA_AHVLA_scientific_mtg.html</link><description><![CDATA[RSPCA/AHVLA Scientific Meeting on Welfare of Agricultural Animals in Research: Cattle, Goats, Pigs, and Sheep on Wednesday, 26 June 2013 in Southern England.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/RSPCA_AHVLA_scientific_mtg.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:33:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCR Workshop: 3rd Review of the IRIS Process Meeting Agenda Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NCR_wksp_3rd_review_IRIS_process.html</link><description><![CDATA[NCR Workshop: 3rd Review of the IRIS Process Meeting Agenda Now Available. This meeting will include a workshop on weight of evidence on March 27-28th that is open to public.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NCR_wksp_3rd_review_IRIS_process.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:53:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make-up Ohne Mäus (German)]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/make-up_ohne_maus_GERMAN.html</link><description><![CDATA[Make-up Ohne Mäus (German)]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/make-up_ohne_maus_GERMAN.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:20:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ARDF 2013 Call for Proposals]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ARDF_grant_call_for_proposals.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Alternatives Research & Development Foundation is currently soliciting research proposals for its 2013 Alternatives Research Grant Program, creating opportunities for innovative scientists who have interest and expertise in alternatives research.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ARDF_grant_call_for_proposals.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:22:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NC3Rs Awards 3Rs Prize for "Lung-on-a-Chip" Device]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_award_Lung_on_a_chip.html</link><description><![CDATA[Research describing an innovative 'lung-on-a-chip' microdevice that can accurately replicate conditions in a diseased human lung has been awarded an international prize.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_award_Lung_on_a_chip.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:15:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAAT Director Hartung Profiled in Nature Journal: Big Biology: The 'Omes Puzzle]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Hartung_in_Nature_journal.html</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Hartung wants to learn all the ways a small molecule can hurt you. To do so, he has organized the Human Toxome Project, funded with $6 million over five years from the US National Institutes of Health.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Hartung_in_Nature_journal.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:07:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPA Seeks Leading Scientists & Engineers]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EPA_seeks_leading_scientist_engineers.html</link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking nominations for technical experts to serve on its Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), a federal advisory committee to the Office of Research and Development (ORD).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EPA_seeks_leading_scientist_engineers.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:12:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[LATINFARMA 2013: 3Rs Alternatives in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Teaching Workshop]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/LATINFARMA_2013.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Latin-American Association of Pharmacology and the Cuban Society of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Cuba scientific institutions, are organizing the XX Latin-American Congress of Pharmacology and the 5th International Congress of Pharmacology.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/LATINFARMA_2013.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:30:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EDQM Survey on Monocyte-activation Test]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/edqm_survey.html</link><description><![CDATA[The EDQM is conducting a survey on the Monocyte-activation test, to gather information from all users and to facilitate its routine application as an in vitro replacement for the Test for pyrogens (2.6.8).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/edqm_survey.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:48:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Science: Global Challenges & Global Collaboration Conference]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/eu_science_global_challenges.html</link><description><![CDATA[EU Science: Global Challenges & Global Collaboration Conference. Registration will close on the 27th of February 2013 at 10:00 CET]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/eu_science_global_challenges.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:32:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Issue of ALTEX: Current Proceedings Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ALTEX_current_proceedings_available.html</link><description><![CDATA[The New Issue of ALTEX: Current Proceedings Now Available. This issue includes lectures held at the 99th Indian Science Congress Plenary Session: Animal Alternatives in Teaching, Toxicity Testing and Medicine.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ALTEX_current_proceedings_available.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:26:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cosmetic Wars (NYT)]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/the_cosmetics_wars.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Cosmetic Wars (NYT). If all goes according to schedule, next month the European Union will become “cruelty-free,” banning without exception the sale of cosmetics ingredients that were tested on animals.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/the_cosmetics_wars.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:08:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advances in In-Vitro Cell and Tissue Culture  and  5th Annual Quasi-Vivo User Group Meeting Program Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/advances_in_vitro_and_tissue_culture_program.html</link><description><![CDATA[Advances in In-Vitro Cell and Tissue Culture and 5th Annual Quasi-Vivo User Group Meeting Program Now Available]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/advances_in_vitro_and_tissue_culture_program.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:14:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mice Fall Short as Test Subjects for Humans Deadly Ills (NYT)]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/mice_fall_short.html</link><description><![CDATA[For decades, mice have been the species of choice in the study of human diseases. But now, researchers report evidence that the mouse model has been totally misleading for at least three major killers ‹sepsis, burns and trauma.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/mice_fall_short.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:16:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ATLA Issue 40.6 Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_ATLA_40_6.html</link><description><![CDATA[ATLA issue 40.6 (December, 2012) includes an editorial titled "FRAME and the pharmaceutical industry" by M. Balls, an article on the FRAME annual lecture, and much more.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_ATLA_40_6.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:42:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summary of HIST Workshop Now Available from ICCVAM]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/summary_of_HIST_avail.html</link><description><![CDATA[A summary is now available of the November 2012 "International Workshop on Alternatives to the Murine Histamine Sensitization Test (HIST) for Acellular Pertussis Vaccines.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/summary_of_HIST_avail.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:10:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal Rule for Drug Approval Creates a Jungle of Confusion (Nature Medicine)]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/animal_rule_creates_confusion.html</link><description><![CDATA[Nature Medicine article "Animal Rule for Drug Approval Creates a Jungle of Confusion" released Feb. 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/animal_rule_creates_confusion.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:02:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Register Now: NJABR's 3Rs Sharing Conference II: The Power & Potential of Refinement & Reduction]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/njabrs_sharing_conf2.html</link><description><![CDATA[Register Now: NJABR's 3Rs Sharing Conference II: The Power & Potential of Refinement & Reduction
February 27, 2013
Somerset, NJ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/njabrs_sharing_conf2.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:00:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workshop: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Opportunities: The US Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/edsp21.html</link><description><![CDATA[Workshop: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Opportunities:
The US Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
April 23-24, 2013, Research Triangle Park, NC]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/edsp21.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:52:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[3D-Printing Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Drug Testing, Future Replacement of Human Organs]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/3Dprinting-future_replacement_organs.html</link><description><![CDATA[A new 3D printing process using human stem cells could pave the way to custom replacement organs for patients, eliminating the need for organ donation and immune suppression, and solving the problem of transplant rejection.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/3Dprinting-future_replacement_organs.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:09:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM)]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/reinventingICCVAM.html</link><description><![CDATA[Reinventing the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM). Excerpts from an editorial by Linda Birnbaum, Director of the US National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/reinventingICCVAM.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:55:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAAT Grants 2014-2015: Call for Preproposals]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/caat_2014-2015_call_for_preproposals.html</link><description><![CDATA[CAAT Grants 2014-2015: Call for Preproposals]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/caat_2014-2015_call_for_preproposals.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:41:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAAT Grant Recipients: 2013-2014 Summaries]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/caatgrants2013.html</link><description><![CDATA[CAAT announces the recipients of its 2013-2014 grants for development of alternatives to animal testing.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/caatgrants2013.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:32:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NIH Committee Calls for Retiring Most Research Chimps, Sending Them to LA Sanctuary]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NIH_calls_for _chimps_tobe_retired.html</link><description><![CDATA[More than 300 chimpanzees should be retired from government-funded research and sent to live in a sprawling refuge outfitted with play areas under a recommendation approved Tuesday by a top national panel of scientists.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NIH_calls_for _chimps_tobe_retired.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:57:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Publication: Animal Research Ethics: Evolving Views and Practices]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/animal_research_ethics_special_rpt.html</link><description><![CDATA[New Publication: Animal Research Ethics: Evolving Views and Practices. Research involving animals has been a cornerstone
of medical progress for more than two centuries.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/animal_research_ethics_special_rpt.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:45:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk in Innovation: Balancing Benefits and Hazards]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/risk_in_innovation.html</link><description><![CDATA[Risk in Innovation: Balancing Benefits and Hazards at the European Parliament Brussles - January 30, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/risk_in_innovation.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:59:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rats! Is Animal Testing on the Way Out?]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/rats_is_testing_onthe_way_out.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Seralini controversy has highlighted what many see as the limits of current methods of using lab animals to evaluate toxic risks. Indeed, a growing number of researchers are advocating toxicogenomics instead.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/rats_is_testing_onthe_way_out.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:18:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Altex Issue 30.1 (2013) Now Available]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/altex30_1.html</link><description><![CDATA[Altex Issue 30.1 (2013) Now Available. This issue of Altex includes an editorial by S. Aulock, Workshop Report, Food for Though by T. Hartung titled "Integrated testing strategies for safety assessments", and much more.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/altex30_1.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:05:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Registration Now Open for PRIM&R 2013 IACUC Conference]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/IACUC_conf_registration.html</link><description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for PRIM&R’s 2013 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Conference which will be held March 18-19 (with two  pre-conference programs, March 16-17) in Baltimore, MD.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/IACUC_conf_registration.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:05:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle School Students Hold Fundraiser for CAAT]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/candygrams_for_critters.html</link><description><![CDATA[7th grade students, as part of her "Be the Change" class, decided to create a "Candygrams for Critters" fundraiser to raise awareness about alternatives to animal testing.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/candygrams_for_critters.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:34:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Conference on Alternatives, Portugal, January 26-27, 2013]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/icaae_conf.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Portuguese Society for Humane Education is organising the first International Conference of Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, to be held in the Fernando Lopes-Graça Auditorium, 26-27 January, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/icaae_conf.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:10:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animal Testing Alternative Hunt Gets £1m Boost]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/1mGBP_donated_animal_replacement_science.html</link><description><![CDATA[In a world first, the research charity Dr Hadwen Trust has announced it will fund a professorial chair in animal replacement science thanks to a £1m donation from lifelong supporter Alan Stross.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/1mGBP_donated_animal_replacement_science.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:06:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rights Group Urges Firms to Give up Drug Tests on Animals]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/taiwan_testing.html</link><description><![CDATA[An animal protection group called on pharmaceutical factories in Taiwan Tuesday to abandon the use of animals and adopt alternative methods for drug testing.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/taiwan_testing.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:20:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Course Begins Feb. 15, 2013: On-Line IACUC Training for Community Members and Others]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/IACUC_online_training.html</link><description><![CDATA[Course Begins Feb. 15, 2013: On-Line IACUC Training for Community Members and Others. MSMR once again offers on-line training for prospective and new IACUC Community Members as well as anyone new to IACUCs.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/IACUC_online_training.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:31:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[1st Latin American Congress on Alternative Methods for Use of Animals in Education, Research and Industry:  COLAMA 2012]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/COLAMA2012.html</link><description><![CDATA[Styled after the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, COLAMA provided a forum for Latin American countries interested in alternative methods. The host country is Brazil.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/COLAMA2012.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:03:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[9th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/wc9.html</link><description><![CDATA[9th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences Website Launches]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/wc9.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:49:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Follows EU Laws to Ban Cosmetic Testing on Animals]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Israel_bans_testing.html</link><description><![CDATA[A law that was passed by the government of Israel in 2010 to ban animal testing for cosmetics products imported into the country came into being on January 1st, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Israel_bans_testing.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:45:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call For Abstracts On Enrichment For Poster Session]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Enrichment_extrav_call_for_abstracts.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Enrichment Advisory committee invites the laboratory animal services community to submit abstracts that illustrate an innovative enrichment method or solution. For the 2013 Enrichment Extravaganza on April 10, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Enrichment_extrav_call_for_abstracts.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:35:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call for Abstracts: IVTIP Solicits Abstracts for 2013 Annual Meeting]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/IVTIP_call_for_abstracts.html</link><description><![CDATA[IVTIP, the In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform, is welcoming the submission of abstracts for oral presentation and posters for the 2013 annual meeting.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/IVTIP_call_for_abstracts.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:35:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Report: Alternative Testing Strategies: Progress Report 2012 and AXLR8-3 Workshop Report on a 'Roadmap to Next Generation Safety Testing Under Horizon 2020']]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/axlr8-3_progress_rpt.html</link><description><![CDATA[This publication is the fifth in a series of reports documenting the progress of European as well as internationally funded research to advance the science of safety testing and the ‘3Rs’]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/axlr8-3_progress_rpt.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:25:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summary Now Available: International Workshop on Alternative Methods for Leptospira Vaccine Potency Testing]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/leptoVaccWksp_summary.html</link><description><![CDATA[A summary is now available of the September 2012 "International Workshop on Alternative Methods for Leptospira Vaccine Potency Testing: State of the Science and the Way Forward.”]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/leptoVaccWksp_summary.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:14:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NC3Rs Mathematics Study Group – Applying Mathematics to 3Rs Problems]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_Math_study_grp.html</link><description><![CDATA[NC3Rs Mathematics Study Group – Applying Mathematics to 3Rs Problems. The NC3Rs is providing access to mathematicians through the EPSRC-funded Mathematics in Medicine Study Group.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_Math_study_grp.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:19:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New CPSC rules on animal testing policy published in today's Federal Register]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_CSPCrules_published_fedReg.html</link><description><![CDATA[A rule published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission codifies the statement of policy on animal testing that provides guidance for manufacturers of products subject to the FHSA regarding replacement, reduction, and refinement of animals.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_CSPCrules_published_fedReg.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:42:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call for Papers: Advances in In-Vitro Cell and Tissue Culture to be held in Liverpool, UK on 21-22 May 2013]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/call_for_papers_adv_invitrocell_tissuecul.html</link><description><![CDATA[Advances in In-Vitro Cell and Tissue Culture to be held in Liverpool, UK on 21-22 May 2013. Call for Papers.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/call_for_papers_adv_invitrocell_tissuecul.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:02:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Hartung, Director of CAAT, Presentation on Human Toxome Project and Endocrine Disruption Testing]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Hartung_presentation_HTP.html</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Hartung, Director of CAAT, Presentation on Human Toxome Project and Endocrine Disruption Testing. Thursday December 13, 2013.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Hartung_presentation_HTP.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:33:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science: November 2012 Issue Now Online]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/JAALAS112012.html</link><description><![CDATA[Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science: November 2012 Issue Now Online. JAALAS serves as an official communication vehicle for the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/JAALAS112012.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:16:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NC3Rs Newsletter Available - Issue 49]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_issue_49.html</link><description><![CDATA[Latest NC3Rs Newsletter Available. Issue 49 includes maths in medicine study group, four new grant awards, a new video tutorial on aseptic technique in rodent surgery, and much more.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_issue_49.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:21:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ACLAM Foundation Grant Announcement]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ACLAM_grant.html</link><description><![CDATA[The ACLAM Foundation Committee members announce our solicitation of research proposals in Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine. The deadline for Letters of Intent is December 6, 2012.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ACLAM_grant.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:07:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug Makers Collaborate to Facilitate Drug Tests]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Drug_makers_collab_to _facilitate_drug_testing.html</link><description><![CDATA[Johnson & Johnson and two other major drug-makers say they are collaborating in a global project aimed at getting patient tests of experimental drugs up and running more quickly and efficiently.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Drug_makers_collab_to _facilitate_drug_testing.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:57:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NC3Rs 3Rs Prize - Call for Applications]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_3Rs_prize_call_for_applications.html</link><description><![CDATA[The NC3Rs seeks nominations for its 2012 3Rs Prize. This annual prize is given for a piece of primary research published in any peer reviewed journal in the last three years. It is now open to researchers in academia or industry anywhere in the world.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_3Rs_prize_call_for_applications.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:41:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPAA 8th Annual Conference on International Cooperation on 3Rs in Animal Testing Concludes]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EPAA_annual_conf_press_release.html</link><description><![CDATA[EPAA 8th Annual Conference on International Cooperation on 3Rs in Animal Testing Concludes. EPAA annual conference press release is available.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/EPAA_annual_conf_press_release.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:21:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NJABR's 3Rs Sharing Conference II]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NJABR_3Rs_conf_2.html</link><description><![CDATA[The New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research & IO 3Rs Group presents 3Rs Sharing Conference II - The Power & Potential of Refinement & Reduction. February 27, 2013 - Somerset, NJ.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NJABR_3Rs_conf_2.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:42:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scottish Scientists Developing In Vitro Artificial Liver]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/scottish_artificial_liver.html</link><description><![CDATA[SCOTTISH scientists are creating the world’s first artificial liver tissue made from human cells, a technology they say has the potential to both speed up and slash the cost of testing and producing new drugs.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/scottish_artificial_liver.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:18:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organ-on-a-Chip Mimics Deadly Lung Condition]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/organ_on_a_chip_mimics_lung_cond.html</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have shown that their “lung-on-a-chip” technology can mimic a life-threatening lung condition.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/organ_on_a_chip_mimics_lung_cond.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:34:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALTEX Vol. 29, No. 4 (2012) Now Available Online]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/altex_29_4.html</link><description><![CDATA[The new issue of ALTEX contains Food for Thought: "Towards tailored assays for cell-based approaches to toxicity testing," conference reports, t4 reports, and other news from the field of alternatives.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/altex_29_4.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:03:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New OECD Test Guidelines Available for Endocrine Disruptor Testing]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/New_OECD_test_guideline.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has officially adopted two test guidelines for test methods to identify substances with the potential to affect the function of the endocrine system.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/New_OECD_test_guideline.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:56:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICCR Issues Report on Applicability of Animal Testing Alternatives in Regulatory Frameworks Within ICCR Regions]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ICCR_report.html</link><description><![CDATA[ICCR's report provides an overview of processes and mechanisms for the use of alternatives in human safety assessments of cosmetic products and ingredients in the four ICCR jurisdictions.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/ICCR_report.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:35:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest NC3Rs Newsletter Available - Issue 48]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_issue_48.html</link><description><![CDATA[Latest NC3Rs Newsletter Available. Issue 48 includes invitations for applications for the 3Rs prize, the annual David Sainsbury Fellowship Competition, and project and pilot study grants.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/NC3Rs_issue_48.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:24:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[3R Research Foundation Switzerland Announces Four New Projects]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/3R_projects_approved.html</link><description><![CDATA[3R Research Foundation Switzerland Announces Four New Projects. Four new projects were approved in August 2012 for which a total of CHF 472,039 was earmarked.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/3R_projects_approved.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:15:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[US and EU Experts Discuss Collaboration on New Toxicology Tools]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/US_EU_collab_tox_tools.html</link><description><![CDATA[The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to collaborate with European researchers in developing new toxicology tools that advance nonanimal based safety science and health research.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/US_EU_collab_tox_tools.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:31:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Researchers Issue Animal Research Transparency Declaration]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Animal_research_transparency_declaration.html</link><description><![CDATA[UK's leading research universities, medical charities and drugs companies on today launched a new transparency initiative aimed at winning over members of the public to the need for animal research.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Animal_research_transparency_declaration.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:11:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joint BelTox-INVITROM Symposium: Reproductive Toxicology: from In Vitro to Human - Dec. 3, 2012]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/beltox-invitrom-symposium.html</link><description><![CDATA[Joint BelTox-INVITROM Symposium: Reproductive Toxicology: from In Vitro to Human - December 3, 2012 at Hotel Ter Elst, Edegem (Belgium).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/beltox-invitrom-symposium.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:12:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Issue of ATLA Now Available (40.4)]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_atla40_4.html</link><description><![CDATA[New Issue of ATLA Now Available (40.4). Issue 40.4 includes an editorial by M. Balls, Abstracts of EUSAAT 2012 and LINZ 2012, and much more.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/new_atla40_4.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:41:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2012 DHT Call for Grant Applications]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/dht2012GrantApp.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) is pleased to announce that our 2012 call for grants has been launched.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/dht2012GrantApp.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:30:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online Survey: Regulatory Acceptance and Use of 3R Models]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/survey_3rModels.html</link><description><![CDATA[The study will result in an overview of drivers and barriers and a set of recommendations to relevant parties with the ultimate goal to optimize the process of acceptance and use of alternative test approaches for regulatory purposes.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/survey_3rModels.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:35:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAAT Policy Program Director Paul Locke Discusses Regulatory Decision Making and Animal Testing]]></title><link>http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Locke_article_greenwire.html</link><description><![CDATA[CAAT Policy Program Director Paul Locke Discusses Regulatory Decision Making and Animal Testing - Excerpted from Greenwire.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://altweb.jhsph.edu/news/2012/Locke_article_greenwire.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:38:08 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
