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PRIMARY CELLS & MEDIA FROM USA Primary human cells derived from human tissue for high throughput screening Your trustworthy partner in the world of in vitro science for the past 30 years MatTek In Vitro Life Science Laboratories MatTek Corporation Mlynské Nivy 73, 821 05 Bratislava, Slovakia, EU 200 Homer Avenue, Ashland, MA 01721, USA Phone: +421-2-3260-7408 Phone: +1-508-881-6771 Fax: +421-2-3260-7404 Fax: +1-508-879-1532 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.mattek.com Web: www.mattek.com A4 MatTek leaflet v12.1 - MKver9-2017.indd 1 7. 3. 2018 7:23:43 ABSTRACTS LINZ 2018 Welcome address EUSAAT 2018 Dear friends and colleagues, on behalf of EUSAAT, the European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing, we welcome you to the 21st European Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing & the 18th EUSAAT 3Rs congress in Linz, Austria on September 23-26, 2018. During the past two decades the “Linz-Congress” has emerged in Europe as the major scientific event in the field of the 3Rs and in the year 2018 the EUSAAT 2018 3Rs Congress Linz will be the largest international 3Rs congress. We are particularly pleased that our international partner societies from China, CCARE, the Chinese Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments, and from the USA, ASCCT, the American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology, are actively participating in our session on “International Progress in 3Rs Research”. EUSAAT 2018 is hosting oral and poster presentations to facilitate discussions and the exchange of ideas for the benefit of alternative methods to animal experiments. The Scientific Committee has identified the most important subjects related to the 3Rs that are currently of interest to scientists in Europe. The EUSAAT 2018 conference focuses in oral and poster sessions on Refinement and Reduction (e.g. animal welfare, education) as well as Replacement topics (e.g. disease models, non-animal tools for basic biomedical research, toxicity studies, omics techniques, advanced 3D models including recent progress in developing human-organ-chips). After the success in 2016, this year we will host three round table discussions on topics that are of particular interest to EUSAAT members. The first on “International Progress in 3Rs Research”, the second on “3R centers in Europe – National and Local Centers” and the third on “Applying human 3D models and Multi-Organ-Chips (MOCs) in Industry”. We are grateful to all speakers for contributing to the training workshop “EUSAAT - Kirkstall Quasi Vivo® Training Workshop” and in particular to the company Kirkstall for the organization of this workshop, which is open to all partici- pants of the EUSAAT 2018 congress. In particular, we are very proud that we are able to continue the “Young Scientists Travel Award (YSTA)” program in 2018 and want to thank the SET Foundation for their generous funding. The YSTA program provides about 20 young scientists with the opportunity to share their ideas on the implementation of the 3Rs in education and novel test systems to reduce the suffering as well as the number of animals in research. The EUSAAT Board is pleased that the number of sponsors of the EUSAAT congresses has increased over the years, since without their continuous support we would not be able to maintain the high scientific standard and to keep the congress fee low. Both elements are equally important in order to attract young scientists from all over Europe and beyond. Therefore, the EUSAAT Board and Scientific Committee thank all of the sponsors of EUSAAT 2018 on behalf of the participants. Moreover, we are also pleased that the abstracts of the EUSAAT 2018 conference on the 3Rs are again published in ALTEX Proceedings and we thank the editor and CEO of ALTEX Edition for helping us to pave the way for future coop- eration for the benefit of implementing the 3Rs in Europe. We finally want to thank our colleagues on the EUSAAT Board and the Scientific Committee for their continuous support in planning the EUSAAT 2018 congress. Horst Spielmann Winfried Neuhaus Dagmar Jirova Dominik Rünzler Secretary General President Vice-President Vice-President ALTEX Proceedings 7, 2/18 I ABSTR ACTS LINZ 2018 List of Abstracts ID Title Authors Type 1 The elephant in the room: PREPARE Adrian Smith, R. Eddie Clutton, Elliot Lilley, Oral before you ARRIVE Kristine Hansen and Trond Brattelid 2 A combined in silico-3D lung tumor model to Gudrun Dandekar, Meik Kunz, Sarah S. L. Nietzer, Oral understand network effects of driver mutations for Florentin Baur, Michaela Baier, Claudia Göttlich, targeted therapy predictions Julia Schüler, Ralf C. Bargou, Heike Walles and Thomas Dandekar 3 S. aureus-infection-model at human liver-on-chip Fatina Siwczak, Alexander Mosig and Poster Lorena Tuchscherr de Hauschopp 4 Modelling ischemic stroke injury at the blood-brain Abraham Alahmad and Shyanne Page Oral barrier in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells 5 Measuring Culture of Care – a practical example Thomas Bertelsen Oral 6 Development of an in-vitro testing battery to Elisabeth Mertl, Christian Kirchnawy, Daniela Poster