15 May 2024

9:00 Registration of Participants

9:30 Non Animal Models: complexity for interactions……connecting Science.

Francesca Caloni- Università degli Studi di Milano Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Milan

10:30 In vitro Intestinal toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics

Giulia Ranaldi – Food and Nutrition Research Centre – Council for Agricultural Research and Economics,CREA-AN, Rome

11:30 Challanges and complexities in medical device testing in vitro from 2D to 3D

Helena Kandarova – Institute of Biochemistry and Microbiology Faculty of Chemical and Food Engineering, Slovak Technical University Centre of Experimental Medicine, Bratislava, Slovakia

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30 Alternative to Animal Testing: the now, the new and the next

Thomas Hartung – Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

14:30  Infectious Disease Models 3.0

Doris Wilflingseder – Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck

15:30 Open Debate with the Participants

16 May 2024

 9:00 Complex – more complex – most complex – but why?

Arno Gutleb – Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

10:00 In vitro platforms to assess liver toxicity.

Hassan Rashidi – Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London

11:00 Open Debate with the Participants and Conclusion