Science Prize Winner 2012

 

The Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy was awarded £50,000 for its work on toxicity pathways in heptatoxicology and developmental toxicology.
http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Birgitte Landesmann & Milena Mennecozzi talk to us about their work..

 

 

Also short-listed

 

Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, USA
For work on the Human Toxome project and other 21st Century toxicology research
http://caat.jhsph.edu

Antidote Europe, France
For work on pesticide mixtures and human cell lines
http://www.antidote-europe.org

Givaudan: Andreas Natsch and Roger Ernter UK
For development of the KeratinoSens skin sensitisation test
http://www.givaudan.com

Anna Maria Bassi, Italy
For her team’s work on toxicity pathways using mammalian cell lines
http://unige.it

Monica Suarez Korsnes, Norway
For her work on variability in cellular response within cell lines
http://www.nvh.no

B. Zimmer et al, University of Konstanz , Germany
For the international team involved in Human Neural Crest Cell toxicity pathway research
http://www.uni-konstanz.de

M. Lindstedt et al, University of Lund, Sweden
For their work on biomarker analysis for skin sensitivities
http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se

Naoaki Ishi et al, Tokai University, Japan
For their work on an alternative test for anti-ageing substances
http://www.u-tokai.ac.jp