For a long time, animal toxicology has been the major source of information on chemical risk
assessment. The study of the effects of chemicals on apical toxicity end points has provided …

The Society of Toxicology (SOT) held a very successful FutureTox II Contemporary Concepts
in Toxicology (CCT) Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on January 16 and 17, 2014 …

While the first use of the term “Predictive Toxicology” was mainly focusing on in silico
approaches and applied almost synonymously to computational toxicology (Helma, 2005) it …

Introduction-Viewed simplistically, there are three major aspects to the field of in vitro
toxicology today: 1) models already available to address specific issues, 2) validating and …

The sophistication of modelling and simulation technologies have improved dramatically
over the past decade and their applications in toxicity prediction and risk assessment are of …

Future Tox III, a Society of Toxicology Contemporary Concepts in Toxicology workshop, was
held in November 2015. Building upon Future Tox I and II, Future Tox III was focused on …

Chemicals, be they exogenous or endogenous, affect organisms. Sometimes these effects
are considered beneficial, for example when pharmaceuticals are used to treat diseases or …

Toxicology in the 21st century (Tox21) is a consortium of five government agencies that set
out to advance high-throughput screening while transitioning from mammalian model …

Predictive toxicology plays a critical role in reducing the failure rate of new drugs in
pharmaceutical research and development. Despite recent gains in our understanding of …

Computational toxicology is a sub-discipline of toxicology concerned with the development
and use of computer-based models and methodology to understand and predict chemical …