News and Information

Epithelix

IVTIP member company Epithelix has been awarded the 2011 trophy for innovation of the Swiss and French Commercial and Industrial Chamber.
http://www.epithelix.com/content/view/110/2/

Epithelix aims to develop the most relevant respiratory in vitro products and services for your research.

New text European Directive accepted!!

Geneva young industry price 2010

Epithelix has been awarded the Geneva young industry price 2010. (http://www.opi.ch/Office/Prixdelrsquoindustrie/tabid/58/Default.aspx)
Epithelix aims to develop the most relevant respiratory in vitro products and services for your research.

ACuteTox

Research Project for Alternative Testing

We are happy to present the latest news from the ACuteTox project, which was finalized in June 2010 
ACuteTox is an integrated project funded by the EU 6FP, with the aim to develop and pre-validate a simple and robust test strategy based on in vitro and computer models for the prediction of human acute oral systemic toxicity and classification of chemicals into the different EU and GHS toxicity classes. 
Potential assays for the test strategy were selected and have now been pre-validated.
- newsletter April 2010
- newsletter October 2010

International Microbiology

IVTIP and REACH' an article of IVTIP's chairman about REACH and industry as gathered in IVTIP www.im.microbios.org - International Microbiology (Corresponding authors) Number 8 (1)

Agenda

The scientific events mentioned in the agenda might be of interest to you. Please contact the organizers for more information.

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