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 1998-1999

Experiments Using a Computer Model of the Immune System

Franco Celada, MD, PhD
Hospital for Joint Diseases-Rheumatology, New York City, New York

Celada and colleagues are collaborating with Philip Seiden, a physicist and research staff member emeritus at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center to construct a model immune system in the computer and conduct experiments with it. By showing that their model can be applied to real research problems they hope to foster its use by more and more immunologists (and, eventually, biologists), thereby catalyzing a cultural transition among bench scientists.