The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing is an academic center affiliated with the Division of Toxicological Sciences in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Research Grants 1984-1985

Detection of Potential Inflammatory Agents

Sharon S. Krag, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Sharon S. Krag, PhD, professor of biochemistry at the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, received continued funding for her work with fibroblasts, skin cells involved in inflammation. She already has produced a quick, easy method to determine whether certain chemicals damage fibroblasts and surrounding tissue.