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 1986-1987

Development of Human and Animal Thymic Epithelial Cell Systems for Use in In Vitro Toxicity Testing

Martyn T. Smith, PhD
University of California School of Public Health, Berkeley, California

Smith will try to develop an in vitro test of toxicity to the thymus, an organ essential for production of elements of the immune system. Smith will use a culture technique he developed recently for growing thymus cells from humans and other mammals.