Good Cell and Tissue Culture Practice 2.0 (GCCP 2.0) – Draft for Stakeholder Discussion and Call for Action

The draft GCCP 2.0 manuscript is hereby published for public comment as supplement 2 to the call for action letter. Over the last few years, a Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC GCCP 2.0) has been formed. All interested stakeholders are invited to join the SAC. Applicants will be able to apply from the day of the publication of this paper and are expected to be bona fide cell culture practitioners. All members of the SAC will have the opportunity to suggest revisions of the text, starting beginning of September 2020, ending end of November 2020. On acceptance, the new SAC members will receive a commentary template to utilize. Comments will only be considered when accompanied by a specific line number reference in the manuscript and a proposal for a specific change to the text and completed templates. The platform for this process is under development and will be communicated to the SAC volunteers. All SAC members will be able to vote on the revisions suggested in December 2020. At the beginning of 2021, following a final revision by the steering group, the guidance will be published, and a number of dissemination activities will be started. It is hoped that this public consultation will assure an open and scientifically intense review of GCCP 2.0 across cell culture experts in various fields of research, in vitro testing, biotechnology development and industry. The GCCP 2.0 steering group has developed a dissemination plan, which will be activated before the public release of GCCP 2.0 and will include consultation with journal editors and life science funding organizations. Furthermore, the new extended SAC will be asked to propose and assist with future dissemination opportunities. The final publication will hopefully provide a go-to good practice reference for students, those coming to use cell culture for the first time or existing cell culture practitioners wishing to use new cell culture systems. The establishment and implementation of the revised guidance promises to improve the quality of research for an important part of the toolbox in the life sciences.

PAMIES David;  LEIST Marcel;  COECKE Sandra;  BOWE Gerard;  ALLEN Dave;  GSTRAUNTHALER G.;  PRICE Anna;  PISTOLLATO Francesca;  DEVRIES Rob;  HARTUNG Thomas;  STACEY Glyn; 

2021-03-12

SPEKTRUM AKADEMISCHER VERLAG-SPRINGER-VERLAG GMBH

JRC121546

1868-596X (online),   

https://www.altex.org/index.php/altex/article/view/2006,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC121546,   

10.14573/altex.2007091 (online),