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EUSAAT 2010 - 13th Annual Congress of EUSAAT

LINZ 2010 - 16th Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing

Date: 2 Sep 2010 - 4 Sep 2010

Location: University of Linz, Austria

The DHT is delighted to announce it is participating in the upcoming “Linz-Congress".

The Linz-Congress, or the “International Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing” is one of the major international scientific meetings in the field of 3Rs research. This year for the first time, the Congress is a collaborative event which brings together three major 3Rs associations: ESTIV, the European Society of Toxicology in vitro, EUSAAT, the European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing and ZET the Austrian Centre for Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Testing.

This international collaboration will ensure the highest standards in scientific presentations, discussions and exchange of new ideas for the benefit of alternative methods to animal experiments.

The Congress brings together the leading scientists in the 3Rs field from around the world to address topics related to alternative methods to animal experimentation. This is the biennial opportunity which allows key speakers to participate in numerous talks and provides opportunities to update participants on the latest and most advanced alternative approaches and methods.

Thanks to the efforts and determination of one of our Trustees, Dr Alison Gray, a whole session, which will take place on the second day of the meeting, has been allocated to the DHT (to see the conference program please visit : http://www.eusaat.org/index.php/2010).

This session, which will be chaired by Alison and our Science Director, Dr Sebastien Farnaud, will focus on methodologies that aim at producing alternatives to animal antibodies, which are widely used not only through the research medical field but also in treatment and diagnostics. The session will comprise a succession of presentations by three internationally renowned experts on the production of alternatives to antibodies. The three researchers have been awarded the necessary funding by the DHT to attend and present their cutting edge technologies.

A broad range of themes are covered at the Conference, of which the promotion of standardisation and harmonisation of in vitro techniques with an emphasis on good cell culture practice are a priority.

In addition, the conference is also a forum for international experts to review the latest developments in the European chemicals and cosmetics policies in context of the use of alternative methods. This will also include the latest update on the revision of the EU-directive 86/609 on the protection of animals used in experiments, for which a final draft is expected for very soon.

For more information please visit the Linz-Congress website.

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