Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine

Human immunocompetent lung model for infection studies

CIMD platform initiative “Alternative methods to animal testing”

virtual via MS Teams / September 29, 2022, 1-2 p.m.

Session 6 with Dr. Knut Rennert on September 29, 2022 within the series “Future predictive models – alternative methods to animal testing”

Dynamic42 (D42) is developing and marketing human organ and disease models. Although animal models are used as a standard to investigate infection and pathogenesis for humans they can lack significant meaningfulness for the human situation. Therefore, D42 has developed infection models of the human lung to enable a realistic analysis of infection/pathogenesis and its treatment in human in cooperation with partners.

In this session, Dr. Knut Rennert, CEO of Dynamic42, will present data for viral, bacterial and fungal infection of the D42 lung model.

Event details

Program

Session 6 “Human immunocompetent lung model for infection studies“

Dr. Knut Rennert, CEO of Dynamic42

Costs

none

Location

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

Date

September 29, 2022, 1-2 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