Respiratory allergens causing diseases like asthma can be identified using methods based on human cells and computer programs. convinced of this, an international research team has developed an investigative approach that was presented in the journal Applied In Vitro Toxicology.

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, are developing an organ-on-a-chip model to be able to create two different forms of epilepsy. To realise they will receive $ 2.0 million of funding for the following two years from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).

The traineeship involves activities, under supervision of the Traineeship adviser, at the Chemical Safety and Alternative methods Unit and the EU Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM) related to the introduction of criteria on how to use non-animal methods for classification of health hazards in the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).

The traineeship will involve support to desk-based research which will result in an elaborate text proposal to be discussed at EU level as well as within the UN Subcommittee working group on non-animal methods for future inclusion into the GHS.

Inducative duration: 5 months.
Location: Ispra, Italy
Deadline: November 10, 2017, 23:59 Brussels time

Read more here:
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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