Workshop
 

 
  WORKSHOP

Progress on alternative in vitro methods for the safety assessment of chemicals
and their impact on human health: international and Brazilian views The workshop aims to present initiatives and perspectives of the alternative methods to animal testing to exchange ideas, concepts and innovations in the area, to generate demands, bringing together currently isolated skills and allowing this issue to be handled by different areas of knowledge. Save the Date PROPe and the organizing committee invite you to the workshop: Progress on alternative in vitro methods for the safety assessment of chemicals and their impact on human health: international and Brazilian views. April, 1st 2015 Local: Dom Luis Lasanha, 400 - Ipiranga - Sao Paulo - SP        View in Google Maps  Time: 9:00 to 17:00
  

1st April, 2015
OPENING CEREMONY
9:00 The landscape of alternative methods
Thomas Hartung
(Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing of the Johns Hopkins Univ Hospital)
9:40 Actual status of alternative in vitro assays for toxicity evaluation
Chantra Eskes (President of European Society of Toxicol in vitro – ESTIV)
10:20 Towards a toxicology for the 21st century: HTS initiative as an
innovative test method to characterize key steps in toxicity pathways
Raymond Tice (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences – USA)
11:00 RENAMA - The Brazilian Network on Alternative Test Methods
Luiz Henrique Mourão do Canto Pereira (RENAMA/CNPq)
12:00-13:00 LUNCH (included in workshop registration)
13:00 The role of BraCVAM in the validation process in Brazil
Octavio Presgrave (BRACVAM)
13:30 Phototoxicity evaluation of topical raw materials
Lorena Gaspar Cordeiro (FCFRP-USP)
14:00 Skin corrosion and irritation: achievements of Brazilian model
Silvya Stuchi Maria-Engler (FCF-USP)
14:30 Alternative models to study bacteria-fungi interaction
Juliana de Campos Junqueira (ICT-UNESP)
15:00 Challenges on use of alternative methods for skin sensitization
Vanessa Sá-Rocha (Natura)
15:30 SBMAlt view of the development of alternative methods in Brazil
Jadir Nunes (SBMAlt - Brazilian Society of
Alternative Methods to Animal Experimentation)
16:00-17:00 Open microphone for additional presentations
and discussion with research groups
Organizing Committee:
Maria José S. M Giannini – PROPe-UNESP
Lorena R. Gaspar Cordeiro – FCFRP-USP
Silvya Stuchi Maria-Engler – FCF-USP
Suely Vilela – FCFRP-USP