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The 99th annual Indian Science Congress was held at Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, India
Interest in alternatives has been spurred by the success of the Mahatma Gandhi-Doerenkamp Center (MGDC) for Alternatives to Use of Animals in Life Science Education, established at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation and People for Animals, Chennai, the only 3Rs institute in India, in phasing out animal dissections in higher education in a decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the regulatory authority of higher education in India, and led to an invitation to the MGDC to organize the session
“For a long time animal testing has been considered as a gold-standard for any kind of toxicity testing, but the value of animal testing is often overestimated,” said Dr Thomas Hartung, Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for Evidence-Based Toxicology, Johns Hopkins University, USA
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The 99th annual Indian Science Congress was held at Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, India. Dr Marcel Leist, Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for in vitro toxicology and biomedicine, University of Konstanz, Germany, elaborated upon validation of alternative methods for toxicity testing.
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