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Ecopa award for young scientists at EUROTOX 2023 ecopa, the European consensus-platform for alternatives, will grant an award to the best contribution of a young scientists presenting research on the 3Rs, and more specifically towards New Approach Methods (NAMs) without animal testing.The Board of ecopa will assign the Award to one applicant. The amount of […]

Webinar: Phasing Out Animal Experiments– Options for a National Policy Non-animal, human-based technologies have developed impressively over the past decade. There is growing evidence that non-animal technologies can improve safety assessment and medical progress. Still, over 5 million animals are used for scientific purposes in Germany and around 22 million in the European Union. Several […]

Slide deck about 3Rs William Russell and Rex Burch developed the concept of the 3Rs during the 1950s, and described them in their book The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique (1959). Norecopa has published a comprehensive slide deck describing the principles and the history of the 3Rs: REPLACEMENT REDUCTION REFINEMENT The full presentation may be […]

Winner of the ecopa award at ESTIV 2022 During ESTIV 2022 in Sitges, Spain, the board of ecopa was proud to assign the ecopa award to Aude Rapet with an oral presentation titled “A breathing lung-on-chip model: an advanced in vitro tool for drug testing and toxicology”. Aude was very smart in introducing an interesting […]

JRC Summer School on Non-animal Approaches in Science EU Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM) is organizing a summer school on Non-animal Approaches in Science. Participation is free of charge and addressed to students and young scientists with interest in non-animal approaches. 23rd May – 26th May 2023 Joint Reserach Centre (JRC) […]

Winner of the ecopa award at ICT 2022 The winner of the ecopa award at ICT 2022, the XVI International Congress of Toxicology was given to Başlar Muhammet, from the Institute of Technology, Department of Bioengineering in Izmir, Turkey. He presented a poster titled: “Development of novel nanotoxicity assessment method utilizing 3D printing system”. Even […]

ecopa newsletter | July-September 2022 Download PDF This is the beginning of a new era for ecopa! I strongly believe that ecopa has an important role in the scientific environment, which is evolving from traditional toxicology, based on the animal models, towards a more advanced approach that is focused on biological pathways assessed on human […]

ecopa is honored to add additional two Young Scientist Travel Awards (YSTA) ecopa sponsors two additional Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA) with 250€ each for the EUSAAT 2022 congress. The preferred topic for these awards is the application of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for regulatory purposes applications. The two awardees will be defined from the […]

ECOPA Award – Best young scientist contribution during ICT 2022. This award is for young scientist contributing with either a poster or an oral presentation during ICT 2022, the XVI International Congress of Toxicology, jointly organized with the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX) and the European Society of Toxicology (EUROTOX) European Society of Toxicology in […]