International Congress
i-SUP2008
Innovative Sustainable Production 2008
Bruges, Belgium, April 22-25 2008
Scientific program
Conference 5
Environment, Health and Safety testing
Alternative testing, the future for Safety testing
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- Theme 1: Targeted toxicity testing
- Recent Developments in the Colipa PT-SCAAT Eye Programme for the Development of In Vitro Alternatives
Pauline McNamee (Procter&Gamble, Surrey, United Kingdom)
- Different applications of the Slug Mucosal Irritation test in pharmaceutical preclinical drug development
Els Adriaens (University of Ghent, Belgium)
- MucilAir: a Novel Human 3D Airway Epithelium Model for Long term Toxicity Testing
Samuel Constant (Epithelix Sàrl, Switserland)
- A cell-based in vitro alternative to identify skin sensitizers by gene expression
Jef Hooyberghs (CARDAM-VITO, Belgium)
- The use of the reconstructed human EPISKINTM for the in vitro assessment of tolerance of chemicals
Roland Roguet (L’OREAL, France)
- In vitro assays for endocrine disruptors: test performance and steps to validation
Hilda Witters (CARDAM-VITO, Belgium)
- Achieving the goals of toxicity testing in the 21st century: The TestSmart Developmental Neurotoxicology Testing Programme
Joe Bressler (Krieger Institute Baltimore (USA)
- Histone deacetylase inhibitors as new tools to generate metabolic competent long-term cultures of primary hepatocytes
Tamara Vanhaecke (VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
- INVITROM - The Dutch-Belgian Society for In vitro methods
Bas Blaauboer (IRAS, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- Alternatives for predictive toxicology in drug development: nice to have or added value?
Philippe Vanparys (CARDAM, Belgium)
- Theme 2: Implemented test strategies in pharmaceutical, cosmetic and chemical product safety assessment
- Theme 3: The regulatory Arena: challenges in method acceptance
- Theme 4: Industrial Centres of Excellence in in vitro services: Who does what?