Amy Clippinger, PhD, has received the 2022 SOT Enhancement of Animal Welfare Award to honor her extensive efforts to develop and integrate predictive methods that advance toxicology while reducing and replacing animal use.
Dr. Clippinger received her PhD in molecular and cellular biology and genetics from Drexel University College of Medicine in 2009 and subsequently conducted her postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, where she focused on molecular biology and virology research.
In her current role as President of PETA Science Consortium International e.V., Dr. Clippinger directs efforts to promote human-relevant alternatives to the use of animals in toxicology research and testing through scientific scholarship and outreach to companies, federal agencies, legislators, and universities. In this capacity, Dr. Clippinger has successfully developed collaborations among a wide range of public and private stakeholders at both the national and the international level. For the past nine years, she has established numerous collaborations with stakeholders in government, industry, and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) within and outside the US to fund validation studies, organize workshops, coordinate seminar series, and publish and present scientific analyses on predictive toxicology.
Dr. Clippinger has been and continues to be integrally involved in efforts to develop, evaluate, and implement new approach methodologies (NAMs) that do not use animals. To this end, she recently worked to advance the use of NAMs for specific use cases for inhalation toxicity of relevance to the US Environmental Protection Agency, helping to address one of the most common uses of animals for assessing risks of chemicals. Dr. Clippinger also routinely engages with US federal scientists and invited experts in efforts to advance NAMs through interactions with the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods, the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods, and the Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods (SACATM).
Dr. Clippinger is an active scientist, and her nearly 40 publications reflect her wide expertise in toxicology, which includes ocular and inhalation toxicology. She serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in In Vitro Toxicology and on the Editorial Board of Applied In Vitro Toxicology. She also is a member of SACATM, advising on the development, validation, scientific review, regulatory acceptance, implementation, and national and international harmonization of toxicological test methods. Dr. Clippinger has been an SOT member since 2013 and is a Past President of the In Vitro and Alternative Methods Specialty Section.
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