Preparing for the future

Taking into account the complexity of the problems to be solved and the broadness of the expertise needed to address the underlying scientific questions, the SEURAT-1 Research Initiative will not be able to finalise the necessary work for full replacement of animal testing in the area of repeated dose systemic toxicity within the next years. Indeed, moving from animal testing to mode-of-action based in vitro assays for improved human safety assessment will require the combined efforts of European and other international activities. The SEURAT-1 Research Initiative is operating in a very dynamic field of research, and a number of related research projects in different parts of the world are active in parallel. This chapter will provide an overview about these parallel research programmes by presenting short descriptions as a basis for the identification of complementary activities and, most importantly, possible future collaborations.

BERGGREN Katarina;  WHELAN Maurice;  SCHWARZ Michael;  GOCHT Tilman;  CUCINELLI Bruno; 

2014-01-09

Coach consortium

JRC84738

978-2-9539634-2-7,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC84738,