CAAT Programs

Core Programs

• Research
• Grants and Awards
• Refinement
• Human Toxome
• Evidence-based Toxicology Collaboration
• Good Cell Culture Practice (GCCP)
• Green Toxicology
• Big Data and AI
• Education
• Information and Communications
• Microphysiological Systems and Systems Toxicology

Upcoming Events

• JHU Exposome Collaborative Launch Event
  November 8, 2019
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Baltimore, Maryland
  The Exposome Collaborative at Johns Hopkins was funded to congregate the intellectual and material resources housed under the various disciplines within the environmental health sciences and engineering, to evaluate the exposome in a holistic manner.

• Keynote Talk: On the Replacement of Animal Testing: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  Michael Balls, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  Wednesday, November 20, 2019
  4-5pm
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Baltimore, Maryland
  Feinstone Hall
  Email: cjanuar1@jhu.edu
  The talk will be live-streamed here

• 60 Years of the 3Rs—Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead
  A celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the publication ofThe Principles of Humane Experimental Technique by W.M.S Russell and R.L. Burch.
  November 22, 2019
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• 5th International Conference on Alternatives for Developmental Neurotoxicity (DNT) Testing
  April 6-8, 2020
  Konstanz, Germany

• 7th Annual 3Rs Symposium: Practical Solutions and Success Stories
  June 4-5, 2020
  USDA National Agricultural Library
  Beltsville, Maryland
  The 7^th Annual 3Rs symposium, co-hosted by the USDA Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC), NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), the Johns Hopkins Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), will be held June 4-5, 2020 in Beltsville, Maryland. The goal of this year’s symposium is to bring together experts in replacement, reduction, and refinement of animal experimentation to exchange information with scientists, IACUC members, veterinarians, and animal care technicians about practical solutions and recent success stories to reduce the use of animals in research and improve their welfare.
   
  The format includes 1.5 days of lectures and panel discussions with interactive breakout sessions in the afternoon on day two. These lectures give participants a strong foundation in the relevant research underlying breakthroughs in the 3Rs, while the breakout sessions allow participants to receive feedback specific to their own facilities from experts and colleagues. A half-day tour of labs and research centers at the Agricultural Research Service is planned for June 3, 2019 as an optional pre-symposium event.

• Summer School on Innovative Approaches in Science
  June 22-25, 2020
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Baltimore, MD

Workshops, Symposia, Awards, and Grants

• Awards
• Grants
• Workshops and Symposia
• CAAT Information Program

Research Program

• The Human Toxome Project
• CAAT Research Activities in Developmental Neurotoxicity
• CAAT One of 17 NIH Grantees Developing Tissue Chips to Help Predict Drug Safety

Policy Program

• MEP-3Rs Scientists Pairing Program (European Parliament)

Programs and Courses at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Online Course: Enhancing Humane Science/Improving Animal Research (via OpenCourseware)
• CAAT Academics (All Programs)
• Humane Sciences and Toxicology Policy Certificate
• CAAT launches Public Policy Program
• Animals in Research: Law, Policy, and Humane Sciences
• Alternative Methods in Animal Testing
• CAAT Scholars Program in Translational Toxicology Research & Training (pdf file)

Websites

• Altweb: The Global Clearinghouse for Information on Alternatives to Animal Testing
• 3Rs and Alternatives Organizations: A Global Resource for Organizations Supporting Alternatives to Animal Testing