Hello, and welcome to the Toxicology in the 21st Century,
Scientific Application course.
My name is Lena Smirnova, and I'm with Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.
The CAAT has many activities, including research and transitional activities
such as education, policy, communication, and different other programs.
The focus of our research is development of modern human relevant methods for
toxicity testing with a focus on neurotoxicology and
computational toxicology.
Besides my research activities, I am responsible for
the education program at our center and teach principles of Toxicology 21st
Century and evidence based toxicology in the master and PhD programs.
In this course, you will learn something that is extremely to be aware of
while working in toxicology.
Regardless of your activity, whether you are regulated to perform
a risk assessment, an early career or senior scientist, or
a professional working in the chemical, drug, or some other industry.
If you're in toxicology and
have never heard about Toxicology 21st Century or Tox21 or
if you think your knowledge of it is not deep enough, this is the course for you.
We will familiarize you with the concept of Tox21 and what is behind this concept.
What does Toxicology of 21st Century mean?
Why is change in the toxicology field so urgently needed?
And how we can make those changes.
This course will teach you not only future perspectives and what needs to be done,
but it will also give you an overview of what has been done already.
You will see that a lot of activities and
interesting projects that are going on right now.
We would like to be able to bring top people
from this field to talk about their area of research.
We hope this course will help you to adapt your work to the needs of Toxicology of
21st Century and get access to most modern tools and technologies to work with.