Events & links
Events
19 – 21 September 2008
15th Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing
Linz, Austria
http://www.zet.or.at/
25 – 28 September 2008
ESTIV 2008 Congress – 15th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology
Stockholm, Sweden
www.estiv2008.org/
8 – 9 December 2008
New Horizons in Toxicity Prediction
Cambridge University, UK
http://www.lhasasymposium.com/
13 – 19 July 2009
Minding Animals
The 2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and Society:
University of Newcastle, Australia
http://www.mindinganimals.com/
Links
This page provides links to useful websites relevant to replacement of animal experiments. The Dr Hadwen Trust does not necessarily endorse or agree with the content of these websites and cannot be held responsible for anything in them.
AcuteTox –European Union Sixth Framework Programme Project
www.acutetox.org
ALTEX – Alternatives to Animal Experimentation. Quarterly journal of MEGAT
www.altex.ch/en/index.html?id=12
AltTox – Non-animal methods for toxicity testing
http://alttox.org
AltWeb – News on alternatives from US CAAT John Hopkins University
altweb.jhsph.edu
Animal Procedures Committee (APC) – UK government advisory body
www.apc.gov.uk/
Animals in Scientific Procedures Division of the Home Office
http://scienceandresearch.homeoffice.gov.uk/animal-research/
Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 – UK legislation
www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/hoc/321/321-xa.htm
Animal Welfare Information Centre (AWIC), US Department of Agriculture
http://awic.nal.usda.gov
ATLA – Alternatives to Laboratory Animals. International journal by FRAME
http://www.frame.org.uk/page.php?pg_id=18
CORDIS – EU Community Research and Development Information Service
http://cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html
ECOPA – The European Consensus Platform on Alternatives
www.ecopa.eu/
ECVAM – European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods
http://ecvam.jrc.it/index.htm
ESTIV – European Society of Toxicology in Vitro
www.estiv.org
EURCA – European Resource Centre for Alternatives in Higher Education
http://www.eurca.org
European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/epaa/index_en.htm
ICCVAM – USA Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods
http://iccvam.niehs.nih.gov/home.htm
Institute for In Vitro Sciences
www.iivs.org
IVTIP – In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform
Includes links to Europe-wide regulatory agencies and legislation
www.ivtip.org
NC3Rs – National Centre for the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animals in Research
www.nc3rs.org.uk
Netherlands Centre for Alternatives to Animal Use
www.nca-nl.org
Nordic Information Centre for Alternative Methods
www.cctoxconsulting.a.se/nica.htm
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
www.oxfordanimalethics.com/index.php
Predictomics – European Union Sixth Framework Programme project
www.predictomics.com
ReProTect – European Union Sixth Framework Programme project
www.reprotect.eu/
Sens-it-iv – European Union Sixth Framework Programme project
www.sens-it-iv.eu/
ZEBET– German federal center for alternatives to animal experiments
www.bfr.bund.de/cd/1591
ZET – Austrian Centre for Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Testing
www.zet.or.at
Companies & resources for non-animal research
Asterand – Human tissue contract research services
http://asterand.com/Asterand/
Biopta Ltd – Human tissue contract research services
www.biopta.com
Cyprotex – In vitro ADME screening and pharmacokinetic prediction
www.cyprotex.com
ECACC – European Collection of Cell Cultures
www.ecacc.org.uk/
Hurel – cells on a silicon chip technology
www.hurelcorp.com
Institute for In Vitro Sciences
www.iivs.org
MatTek Corporation – Human cell-derived, 3-D, in vitro tissue equivalents
www.mattek.com/pages
onCoreUK – National cancer human specimen and information resource
www.oncoreuk.org/index.html
Serum-free Media for Cell Culture
www.focusonalternatives.org.uk/current%20initiatives.htm
UK Human Tissue Bank
www.ukhtb.org
Xceleron – Human microdosing technology
www.xceleron.co.uk
Computer modelling
Biographics Laboratory
www.biograf.ch
BioSim – European Union Sixth Framework Programme project
www.biosim-network.net/
Centre for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modelling at John Hopkins University USA
www.ccbm.jhu.edu
Entelos – Virtual patients for use in drug research
www.entelos.com
Fetal Charlotte – Fetal physiology model
www.aspects.net/~fetchar/Index.html
LHASA Ltd
www.lhasalimited.org
Physiome Project
www.physiome.org
SIMCYP – Pharmacokinetic software
www.simcyp.co.uk
Sheffield BioScience Programs
http://members.aol.com/Sheffbp/sbpmain.htm
Databases
ALTBIB
US National Library of Medicine bibliography of alternatives to animal research
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/altbib.html
ECVAM Database of Alternative Methods
http://ecvam-dbalm.jrc.cec.eu.int/
Go3R
Knowledge-based semantic search engine for alternative methods to animal experiments
www.Go3R.org
INVITTOX Database of in vitro toxicology protocols
www.invittox.com
NORINA – Database of alternatives to the use of animals in education
http://oslovet.veths.no/NORINA
PubMed – General scientific database of published medical research
www.pubmed.gov
SEFREC – Database of serum-free media and serum-free adapted cell-lines
www.sefrec.com/
ZEBET– German federal database of alternatives
www.bfr.bund.de/cd/1508
Non—profit organisations funding and promoting alternatives to animal experiments
Alternatives Research and Development Foundation (ARDF)
www.ardf-online.org
Focus on Alternatives (FOA)
www.focusonalternatives.org.uk
Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME)
www.frame.org.uk
Humane Research Trust
www.humaneresearch.org.uk
InterNICHE
www.interniche.org
Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research
www.ldf.org.uk
Stiftung Forschung 3R
www.forschung3r.ch
Swedish Fund for Research without Animal Experiments
www.stifud.se/english/index.php
Volunteers in Research & Testing (VRT)
www.vrt.org.uk