Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine

In vitro tissue models: perspectives and pitfalls for efficacy assessment

CIMD platform initiative “Alternative methods to animal testing”

virtual via MS Teams / June 30, 2022, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Session 4 with Florian Groeber-Becker on June 30, 2022 within the series “Future predictive models – alternative methods to animal testing”

In vitro models are becoming more and more accepted in risk assessment. However, their use in efficacy testing is not well established. At Fraunhofer ISC, Florian Groeber-Becker and his team are working on in vitro tissue models and developing efficacy test systems.

In this session, Florian Groeber-Becker will give an overview of current approaches to efficacy assessment, related pitfalls and how novel test procedures can be derived.

Event details

Program

Session 4 “In vitro Tissue Models: Perspectives and Pitfalls for Efficacy Assessment“

Florian Groeber-Becker, Head of In vitro Test Systems at the Fraunhofer Translational Center for Regenerative Medicine, Fraunhofer ISC

Costs

none

Location

Virtual event via MS Teams; registered participants will receive the login details prior to the event.

Date

June 30, 2022, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Language

English

Fraunhofer CIMD platform initiative “Alternative methods to animal testing”

Research projects in the life sciences are based on increasingly multifaceted and interdisciplinary methods and often on a close combination of animal experiments with non-animal methods. The principle of the 3Rs that is valid for all researchers – to replace, reduce and consistently refine animal experiments – also governs research at Fraunhofer. Within the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Immune-Mediated Diseases CIMD, an initiative of the competence platform ”Alternative methods to animal testing”, managed by Fraunhofer ITEM, has been established. At the end of March, the initiative started the lecture series ”Future predictive models – alternative methods to animal testing”.

Go to the website of the Competence Platform