The 13th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences brought us to Rio de Janeiro, and what an inspiring week it was! 🌍✨
Together with our ASPIS cluster colleagues from ONTOX and PrecisionTox, the RISK-HUNT3R delegation joined hundreds of scientists, regulators and innovators from around the world to exchange ideas and showcase the latest in next-generation safety testing.
Our contributions highlighted new ways to make safety testing less reliant on animal studies, from exploring how Physiologically Based Kinetic (PBK) models can improve toxicokinetics assessment, to shining a spotlight on ASPA.
ASPA is an interactive NGRA workflow that systematically guides users through the entire risk assessment process. By bringing structure and clarity to this complex challenge, ASPA makes it easier to turn innovative science into practical, usable tools that can support real-world decision-making.
While not everyone from the project could join us in Rio, the delegation represented the energy, creativity and progress of the wider consortium. Our colleagues shared posters, co-chaired sessions and joined inspiring discussions on AI, NAMs and sustainable innovation. Every conversation, from the plenary stage to the coffee breaks, reinforced the sense of a community working together for a common goal: advancing human-relevant approaches that support the 3Rs and pave the way to a future without animal testing.
We return from WC13 motivated by the steps forward we’ve made together and grateful for the chance to connect with so many brilliant colleagues around the world.
Here’s to keeping the momentum going, and to building the next chapter of innovative, human-relevant chemical safety science! 🙌