Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
Given the continuing uncertainties related to travel and large gatherings, the organizing committee and board of directors have decided to proceed with a virtual ASCCT meeting. The meeting will still feature plenary speakers, panel discussions, oral and poster presentations drawn from submitted abstracts...
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Computational Toxicology: Peeking into the Clouds while Keeping our Feet on Solid Ground
The 8th Annual Meeting of the ASCCT was held on September 25-26, 2019 at Gaithersburg Hilton – Montgomery Ballroom (Gaithersburg, MD). It focused on the development and use of computational...
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The American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology (ASCCT) recently held its 6th Annual Meeting at the headquarters of one of its founding organizations, the Institute for In Vitro Sciences....
Read moreThank you to all who helped make our fifth meeting the best yet. Attendees were treated to plenary lectures on read across by Dr. Thomas Hartung of Johns Hopkins University and on stem cells in toxicology by Dr. Mahendra Rao of Mahendra Rao, LLC. Sixteen presentations showcasing advances in...
Read morePromises and Challenges of a More Flexible Approach to Toxicology Testing
The fourth annual ASCCT meeting explored new approaches to toxicology testing with plenary lectures given by Warren Casey, Director of NICEATM and Craig Rowlands from the Dow Chemical...
Read moreWhere Chemistry and Biology Meet: AOPs as a Framework for Advancing Toxicology
Dr. Robert Kavlock of the US Environmental Protection Agency opened the meeting with a discussion on the development of the Adverse Outcome Pathways concept, in which AOPs offer a...
Read moreThe Future Is Here: Practical Applications of Emerging Scientific Tools
Human Organs on Chips as Replacements for Animal Testing, the keynote address given by Donald E. Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., of the Wyss Institute at Harvard, kicked off the meeting which...
Read moreThe first annual ASCCT meeting focused on advances in the fields of in vitro and computational toxicology. Dr. Melvin Andersen, associate director of The Institute for Chemical Safety Sciences at The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences and ASCCT board member, gave a plenary lecture on...
Read moreAttendees gained hands-on laboratory experience and instruction in the practical application of the lectured topics. Topics for the three and a half day course...
Read moreThank you for helping to make the ASCCT/ESTIV luncheon session a success. A manuscript outlining the discussions that took place during the session has been published. You can view the entire proceedings here.