Challenges | Innovation Platform

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Improving post-operative care for the laboratory rodent.

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Wings of Change

Replacing animal use for acute and chronic avian toxicity studies.

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Systems to identify individual mice from birth.

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Development of a fish embryo assay to detect thyroid-active chemicals.

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Multi-species in vitro developmental toxicity testing.

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Real-time multiparametric monitoring of connected organ-on-a-chip devices.

Image of molecules on blue background - Thyroid Tox Challenge

Development of in silico tools to predict endocrine disruption.

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In vitro safety assessment of CAR-T cell therapies.

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Innovative bioassays for environmental risk assessment and fish toxicity.

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Virtual Second Species

Development of virtual dog tissues and organs for chronic toxicity studies.

Challenge 39 Tat-Fit

Tasteful tamoxifen for inducible transgenesis.

Challenge 38 Mouse Mapp_image

An application to monitor the welfare of mice.

Challenge 37 STRATIS

A human-relevant and high throughput in vitro or ex vivo platform that recapitulates the complex structures of skeletal muscle and the pathology of significant injury to them.

Challenge 36 Animal Free_image

Animal-free in vitro

Replacement of animal-derived reagents in an established human cell-based in vitro assay associated with an OECD Test Guideline.

Challenge 35 in vitro TDAR

A human immune response assay for the assessment of immune modulation.

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Sharp and to the Point

Developing needles for high throughput and critical compound administration in mice.