Horizon 2020 research project ALTERNATIVE develops an innovative platform for assessing the cardiotoxicity of chemicals. The novel platform will enable regulators and industry to identify, quantify and prevent cardiotoxic co-exposures to industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals in a cost-effective way.
Novel protocol on direct myocardial damage due to different kinds of environmental toxicants
On June 18th, 2022, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, volume 19, number 12, an article has been published about the protocol of a systematic review […]
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ALTERNATIVE partner Elvesys participated in a poster session on the topic “Microfluidics for the pharmacological characterization of compounds on neurotransmitters transporters”
ALTERNATIVE partner Elvesys participated at Gordon Research Conference, Membrane Transport Proteins, Biomedical Transporters: Physiology, Dysfunction and Targets of Pharmacotherapy from June 12 – 17, 2022. They presented a poster on […]
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ALTERNATIVE partner co-leads AOP pre-conference workshop in ICAW/EEMGS conference
From 23rd – 26th May 2022, the 14th International Comet Assay Workshop (ICAW) and 50th EEMGS (Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society) joint meeting was organised in Maastricht, Netherlands. EEMGS is […]
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Productive meeting of ALTERNATIVE advisory board
On 19th & 20th May, ALTERNATIVE advisory board, online meeting took place. The purpose of the advisory board is to provide advice on the direction and implementation of ALTERNATIVE’s work […]
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Participation of Sciensano in AOP visualisation group session organised by European Commission
On May 11th 2022, Sciensano participated in an Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) visualisation focus group session organized at the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. The aim of this group session was […]
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Scientific Paper on Use of Polyesters in Fused Deposition Modeling for Biomedical Applications in Macromolecular Bioscience Journal
On 30 April 2022, Partners from Politecnico di Torino published a paper on Use of Polyesters in Fused Deposition Modeling for Biomedical Applications in Macromolecular Bioscience Journal published by Wiley-VCH […]
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ALTERNATIVE results presented at MicroPhysio conference in Cargèse
ALTERNATIVE consortium partner Elvesys presented selected project results at the first edition of the MicroPhysio conference on “Micro-physiological models: From organoids to organs-on-chip”, which took place at the CNRS center […]
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ALTERNATIVE presented at health promotion event in Turin
ALTERNATIVE project coordinator Politecnico di Torino contributed to a regional health promotion event on the Piazza San Carlo in Turin called “Just the Woman I Am”, which took place on […]
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ALTERNATIVE project introduced at European Regulators Network PARERE
At the annual European PARERE meeting on 17th February, Martin Paparella from Medical University Innsbruck and Birgit Mertens from Sciensano introduced the ALTERNATIVE project and specifically the activities related to […]
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ALTERNATIVE presentation on AOPs for cardiotoxicity at 1st SAAOP Symposium
On 15, 17 and 22 February, the Society for the Advancement of Adverse Outcome Pathways (SAAOP) organized the 1st AOP Community of Practice Symposium for everybody interested in AOPs and their applications. […]
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