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.
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CAAT 25th Anniversary Symposium
A Celebration of Progress in Humane Science
Sommer Hall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, Maryland
November 2, 2006
Directions: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, American Visionary Art Museum
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
8:00 - 9:00 am: Registration (located at the Monument Street entrance) and Continental Breakfast (Feinstone Hall)
9:00 - 9:20: Introduction and Welcome
Moderator: James D. Yager, PhD (current CAAT board member) / Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Welcome
Michael Klag, MD, MPH
Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health - Presentation of Governor's Citation to Alan Goldberg and CAAT
Susan Kaskie Driscoll
Governor's Office, State of Maryland - Remembering William Russell
Alan M. Goldberg, PhD
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
9:20 - 9:25: CAAT 25th Anniversary Highlights
Stephen Gettings, PhD, JD (past CAAT board member), Vice President of Product Safety & Integrity, Avon Products Inc.
Humane Science — The Big Picture
Moderator: Noel R. Rose, MD, PhD (current CAAT board member), The W. Henry Feinstone Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- 9:25 - 10:00: Better Science, Better Policy, and Humane Science — The Issues for the Future
Ellen Silbergeld, PhD (past CAAT grantee) — Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 10:00 - 10:30: The Need for Collaboration: Experience in the UK
Lord Leslie Turnberg, Chairman, UK National Center for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)
10:30 - 11:00: Break
11:00 - 11:05: CAAT 25th Anniversary Highlights 2
Marilyn Wind, PhD (current CAAT board member), Deputy Associate Executive Director, Consumer Safety Product Commission
Perspectives on Alternatives and the Future of Regulation
Moderator: David Owen, PhD (current CAAT board member), Head of Health and Environmental Sciences, Shell Chemicals Ltd.
- 11:05 - 11:35: Intellectual and Scientific Challenges Facing Us in Validating New Tests
Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD — Director, European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) - 11:35 - 12:05: Developmental Neurotoxicity — A Necessity for Alternatives
Kevin Crofton, PhD, Neurotoxicologist, US Environmental Protection Agency
12:05 - 2:00: Lunch in Feinstone Hall
Moderator: Andrew Rowan, PhD (current CAAT board member), Vice President, Humane Society of the United States
- Stress Assessment and Wildlife Welfare
David Macdonald, PhD, Oxford University
2:00 - 2:05: CAAT 25th Anniversary Highlights 3
Pushpa Vavilikolanu, PhD (current CAAT board member), Project Leader, Global Regulatory Affairs, Alberto-Culver USA Inc.
The Future of Humane Science
Moderator: Gihan Tennekoon, MD (current CAAT board member), Professor of Neurology & Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
- 2:05 - 2:35: Vision for the Future of Chemical Risk Assessment
Melvin Andersen, PhD, Director, Division of Biomathematics & Physical Sciences, CIIT Centers for Health Research - 2:35 - 2:55: Translational Toxicology: From Laboratory to Practice
Michael Trush, PhD (past CAAT grantee), Professor - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 2:50 - 3:10: Non-Invasive Optical Imaging: Alternatives in Action
Pamela R. Contag PhD (Bloomberg School of Public Health Advisory Council), President and Co-CEO, Xenogen - 3:15 - 3:45: Looking Forward: CAAT and a Vision of Next Generation Alternatives
James D. Yager, PhD (current CAAT board member), Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:45 - 4:30: Birthday cake in Feinstone Hall (open to the Hopkins Community)
7:00 - 11:00: Gala Dinner — American Visionary Art Museum (800 Key Highway, Baltimore, Maryland)
American Visionary Art Museum