Every year at the SOT Annual Meeting, the Education Committee hosts the In Vitro Lecture and Luncheon . This event is sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive and has the goal of introducing attendees to in vitro and alternative toxicity testing with a focus on replacing animal use in research. The...
Graduate students and postdocs, are you gearing up for a career in academia? Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) offer a substantial proportion of the available tenure-track faculty positions in the life sciences. For toxicologists interested in careers that combine research and teaching...
As I assumed the role of SOT president on May 1, I found myself reflecting on what a truly remarkable organization I have been trusted to lead. I’m not just thinking about the Annual Meeting, although it is still fresh in my mind—I’ll get back to that topic shortly. Rather my thoughts focused on...
Thank you for attending the SOT 56th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, March 12‒15, 2017. At the conclusion of this meeting, several items remained unclaimed in the SOT Headquarters Lost and Found. These items include a pair of black heels in a red and black bag, a Baltimore Ravens fleece hoodie, a...
The following blog pertains to the 2017 SOT Annual Meeting Scientific Session "Organs-on-a-Chip, Tissue Bioprinting, and 3D Cultures: Next Generation Models for Toxicology in the 21st Century." Over the past few years, a number of new and exciting technologies have been developed for toxicity...
The following blog pertains to the 2017 SOT Annual Meeting Scientific Session "Opportunities for Read-Across Development and Application Using QSAR Approaches." As recently as 25 years ago, applying read-across techniques to predict the toxicity of a target chemical was rare. Trailblazers in...
Putting Lessons Learned from SOT Scientific Sessions into Practice Before I proceed with my report on the 2017 Workshop Session "Safety or Prediction? What is the Future of Regulatory Toxicity Testing," it would be appropriate to state my Conflict of Interest (COI) and bias, which is a...
The 2017 SOT Annual Meeting Scientific Session “Communicating Toxicology to the Public,” chaired by Phil Wexler, MLS, National Library of Medicine, included speakers engaged with a variety of efforts to improve science communication efforts and to increase public understanding of toxicology. ...
The following blog pertains to the 2017 SOT Annual Meeting Scientific Session "Measurement and Prediction of Chemicals in Consumer Products." Not to be thwarted by the week’s surprise snowstorm in Baltimore, toxicologists were back in force at SOT to attend a workshop session that presented...
More than 6,800 scientists participated in the Society of Toxicology (SOT) 56th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, and 20% were international attendees. These scientists came from as far away as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Europe, Israel, Japan, Mongolia, Nigeria, South Korea,...
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