@re-placedatabase.bsky.social
📣A project to promote the use of alternative methods to animal testing 📣NAMs | in vitro👩🔬 | in silico💻 | in chemico 🔬| ex vivo 🔗 https://www.re-place.be/
More information: www.estiv.org/congress2026...
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You can still submit your abstract submission for the 23rd ESTIV Congress🤩
📌Topics of interest include complex #invitro models, #cosmetics safety, #organ-on-a-chip, #insilico modelling, role of #3R centres, #NAMs & much more!
📆 Deadline: 12 November, 11:59 CET
🆕 Briefing paper from @nc3rs.bsky.social on improving translation and minimising animal use with human-relevant in vitro preclinical models
👉 Read the full paper nc3rs.org.uk/sites/defaul...
The 3R Online Seminar Series “Alternatives to Animal Use in Research and Education: Refine, Reduce & Replace” will take place again this year 🤩
📅 Every Thursday from 16/10 to 11/22 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Check the program and find more information via www.vetmed.fu-berlin.de/einrichtunge...
📣 Complete the RE-Place Survey by 31 August
👉 There’s still time to share your thoughts on the RE-Place database and website by completing our short 5-minute survey:
surveys.sciensano.be/index.php/31...
👉 Your feedback will help us improve the platform and assess the impact of RE-Place on your work
✨International Conference on Alternatives and Simulation in Education ✨
📍 Riocentro Exhibition & Convention Center, Rio de Janeiro
📅 August 30th, 2025 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
🗣️ Organisation: CAAT, InterNICHE & CPBT
For more information: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...
🚨 Save the date: EPAA & EDQM symposium on the future of animal-free pyrogenicity testing🚨
➡️ This event is organised as a follow up of the 2023 workshop
📅 25-26 February 2026
📍 Albert Borschette Conference Centre, Brussels
👉 More information: www.edqm.eu/en/-/save-th...
An organ-on-a-chip device being placed into the chamber of a machine.
Read our new briefing paper, showcasing how the next generation of preclinical in vitro models can replace animal use, better recapitulate human physiology and disease and increase the efficiency of drug development: nc3rs.org.uk/news/briefin...
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🆕The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) has just published a draft guidance on Good In Vitro Reporting Standards (#GIVReSt) 🧪🧫
➡️ Any feedback on this paper is welcome, so don't hesitate to contact the authors via CAAT@jhu.edu
➡️ altex.org/index.php/al...
🌞 Summer is the perfect time to catch up!
Have you missed one of our webinars during the year? No worries! All RE-Place webinar recordings are available on our YouTube channel.
Feel free to share with colleagues or anyone interested 🤩
➡️ www.youtube.com/@re-place1330
A wax moth larvae (Galleria mellonella) in a plastic petri dish.
Wax moth larvae are growing in use as a partial replacement for rodents, from infection and immunity research to toxicology. The fourth annual Galleria mellonella workshop is organised by Dr Rachel Clare in collaboration with @gmrc.bsky.social
🗓️15 September
👉Register: nc3rs.org.uk/events/galle...
Don't forget to submit your abstract for the Young TPI conference "Connecting the Dots", that will explore new frontiers in the #animal-free #transition 🤩
🗓 October 23–24, 2025
📍 Trippenhuis, Amsterdam
📝 Deadline for abstract submission: 15/08/2025
More information: youngtpi.com/events/15
Don't forget to register for the next ASCCT - ESTIV webinar on NGRA for occupational chemical safety!
📆 Date 24 July 2025
🕰️ Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm ET / 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
💻 Platform: Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📣Don't forget to register for the next #COST webinar on "Proxy measures for animal feelings: How to validate indicators of affective state or cumulative affective experience"
📅 Date & Time: 15 July 2025 | 16:00 CET
💻 Platform: Zoom
🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/t7zokJn6z4D1...
More information: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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📣 Call for #papers: State-of-the-art of new approach methodologies in next generation risk assessment
This cross-journal #specialissue welcomes original research papers, review papers, opinion papers and workshop reports dealing with #NGRA and #NAMs
📆 Submission deadline: 01 December 2025
More information: ardf-online.org/air-challeng...
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📣 Funding Opportunity - The Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF) offers a new program to fund promising proposals that use innovative and #human-relevant research methods to address research questions related to childhood cancers.
📆 LOI Deadline: September 15, 2025
🎉 Congratulations to Emma Streutker for winning the RE-Place Best Poster Award at the MPS World Summit!
Her poster was titled: "A fibrosis-on-chip model to study Systemic Sclerosis." 🤩 The award was presented by Birgit Mertens, one of the coordinators of the RE-Place project!
Well done, Emma! 👏
📣 Call for Abstracts - 8th IC-3Rs Symposium
✔️ Focus on the #3R Principle in its broadest sense
✔️ Best poster presentation Competition
✔️ Reduced registration fee for the Symposium 🤩
📆 Deadline to submit your abstract: 31/07/2025
More information: www.ic-3rs.org/2025-symposi...
📆 Prochain webinaire du FC3R : le 7 juillet de 13h à 14h
Ce webinaire parlera des #3R en pratique : perspectives éthiques sur leur mise en oeuvre. Il sera présenté par Christian Rodriguez Perez et Edwin Louis-Maerten
Pour s'inscrire : www.fc3r.com/webinaires/s...
More information: www.re-place.be/news/nam-nav...
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🔎 Are you looking for information on the #development, #standardisation, #validation and #acceptance of #NAMs?
Discover the NAM Navigator by ZonMw! This free online portal helps guiding researchers & innovators through each stage of non‑animal model development, from R&D to Regulatory acceptance ✔️
👉 Do you work with alternative methods in Belgium?
Then you can also contribute to the database! It’s a great opportunity to:
✅ Increase visibility for your research
✅ Connect with like-minded experts
✅ Receive credits for continuing education in laboratory animal science
👉 www.re-place.be
🎉 We’ve reached 300 methods in the RE-Place database 🤩
These methods cover a wide range of topics and include various types of models submitted by experts from 34 belgian organisations 🏛️
An update on the current status 👇
📣Animal-Free Workshop Series for Early-Career Researchers
👉 This third workshop will feature a scientific presentation on recent advances in #brain #microphysiological sytems 🧠 and a #career panel featuring representatives from #academia, #industry, #government, and #policy 🏛️
📆 01/07/2025
You can still complete our #survey on the use of the RE-Place database!
Whether you have already
✔️browsed the platform
✔️used the database
✔️or contributed your own expertise
👉 Your feedback is very useful for us 🤩
📝Access the survey here: surveys.sciensano.be/index.php/31...
Call for abstracts open for the ASCCT annual meeting!
🎯 all areas of #invitro, #insilico, and non-animal investigational and applied #toxicology, as well as policy and engagement activities
📆 Deadlines:
Regular Abstracts: July 30
Poster Only Abstracts: August 30
👉 www.ascctox.org/annual-meeting
🆕 RE-Place submissions now qualify for continuing education in Lab Animal Science in Belgium 🤩
How does it work?
1️⃣Submit a new method to the database and make sure to fulfill the different criteria
2️⃣Request a certificate by contacting the RE-Place team
More info: www.re-place.be/news/re-plac...
🆕Basement Membrane Extract (BME)-free Database launched!
This database provides researchers with an overview of commercially available #hydrogel- and #coating-based products for #invitro applications 🧪and is hosted by the 3Rs Centre Utrecht.
👉 Check the database now via bme-free.sites.uu.nl
