The second ONTOX-VPH4Safety webinar, co-organised by ASPIS Academy, will explore how to bridge science and society to drive the successful implementation of animal-free chemical risk assessment.
The webinar “Bridging Science and Society: Stakeholder Involvement in Animal-Free Risk Assessment” will explore the vital role of stakeholder engagement in initiatives like ASPIS and ONTOX.
“Effective stakeholder management is the key to successfully transitioning to animal-free risk assessment. Are you curious how this is done in ONTOX and VHP4Safety? Join the webinar!” invites attendees Marie Corradi, event co-organiser on behalf of ONTOX.
During the webinar, esteemed experts will share how collaborative efforts between researchers, regulators, and industry can facilitate the transition to innovative, non-animal methodologies.
The webinar will feature presentations from:
- Michael Guy Diemar (ONTOX)
- Aniek de Winter (VHP4Safety)
- Isaac Ortega Alvarado (VHP4Safety)
The webinar will take place on 8 April from 15:00 to 16:30 CET via the online platform ZOOM. The webinar is free of charge and open to the public.
A collaborative webinar series
This event is part of an ONTOX-VPH4Safety webinar series, organised in collaboration with the ASPIS Academy, a network of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The series aims to showcase the contributions of ESRs from ONTOX and VHP4Safety while reinforcing the collaboration between the two projects.
Looking back: the first webinar
The inaugural webinar, “Research Output Management Strategies for Animal-Free Risk Assessment,” featured:
- Danyel Jennen (VHP4Safety; ONTOX)
- Marcha Verheijen (ONTOX)
- Eliska Kuchovska (ONTOX; ASPIS Academy)
- Jente Houweling (VHP4Safety)
Speakers introduced BioStudies and the ToxTempAssistant, showcasing their implementation within ONTOX and VHP4Safety.
About the VPH4Safety
The mission of the Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment (VPH4Safety) is to improve the prediction of the potential harmful effects of chemicals and pharmaceuticals based on a holistic, interdisciplinary definition of human health by developing the Virtual Human Platform and accelerating the transition from animal-based testing to innovative safety assessment.
The Virtual Human Platform integrates data on human physiology, chemical characteristics and perturbations of biological pathways for the first time in an inclusive and integrated manner that incorporates:
- human-relevant scenarios to discriminate vulnerable groups, such as disease state, life course exposure, gender and age;
- chemicals from different sectors: pharma, consumer products and chemical industry;
- different regulatory and stakeholder needs.
About the ASPIS Academy
The ASPIS Academy is a network for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) interested in developing and using New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in toxicology. ASPIS Academy boosts the careers of ESRs by giving specific training and setting up a space where the excellent ideas and dreams of a young scientist’s new generation can shine.
ASPIS Academy is a part of the ASPIS cluster, a collaboration of the H2020-funded projects ONTOX, PrecisionTox, and RISK-HUNT3R, representing Europe’s effort towards the sustainable, animal-free and reliable chemical risk assessment of tomorrow.
