Alan and Helene Goldberg In Vitro Toxicology Grants

Alan and Helene Goldberg In Vitro Toxicology Grants is sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT). This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

Grants + Awards - Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing The grants program is a centerpiece of our work, providing initial funding for scientists to develop alternatives to the use of animals in biomedical research and product safety testing. To date, the center has funded over 300 grants (including renewals) for a total of more than $6 million.

relatively small individually, these grants offer critical seed money that allows researchers to demonstrate the value of a particular area of study. This helps them gain support from the NIH and other sources. We have a stringent, peer-reviewed process for selecting the recipients of these grants.

This process consists of sending each application to at least two experts in the field from academic, industrial, and government institutions. These reviewers evaluate the applications regarding scientific merit, budget appropriateness, suitability to CAAT’s mission, and expertise of the investigators. They also assign a priority score based on the NIH’s scoring system.

At the CAAT annual advisory board meeting, board members review these applications. Board members constitute the voting contingent for the grant applications. They assign priority scores in a secret ballot format based on a synopsis of the outside reviews and the board reviewers.

The applications are then ranked in order of priority score. Those that receive fundable scores are awarded funds based upon availability of money for the fiscal year. We continue to monitor the long-term progress of the Research Grant Program.

We require our grant recipients to submit copies of publications resulting from the CAAT grant-funded work. We maintain a list of publications and an archive of journal reprints. For any questions relating to any of our grants, please feel free to reach us at caat@jhu.

edu. Alan and Helene Goldberg In Vitro Toxicology Grants The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) is soliciting projects that focus on the implementation of the NAS Report: Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy in the following areas: Proposals Relating to Toxicology : Maximum grant amount is $40,000 USD. The objective should be to significantly reduce or replace laboratory animal use.

Examples of acceptable projects include: providing mechanistic understanding of in vitro responses to toxicants in human cells, developing AOPs, or conducting systematic reviews. Consideration should be given to the translation of this new method to evaluate/predict health outcomes. Proposals Relating to Refinement are awarded through a different funding mechanism.

See Science-Based Refinement Awards – funded separately. For past awardees and project descriptions, please visit: https://caat. publichealth.

jhu. edu/grants-awards/alan-and-helene-goldberg-in-vitro-toxicology-grants-2/ CAAT Humane Education and Reduction Awards CAAT’s Beyond Classical Refinement Program, led by Kathrin Herrmann, PhD, has been awarding two annual grants for Reduction of animal experiments and for humane education.

The Reduction Award is given to a research project that helps reduce animal use by identifying areas of research and testing where animal models lack reproducibility and translational value. The Humane Education Award is awarded for the development of animal-free training resources for veterinary, medical, or laboratory courses. Each grant includes prize money of $6,000 USD .

The jury consists of five members of the Beyond Classical Refinement Program’s Advisory Board. They had to decide among numerous excellent proposals. For complete application instructions, as well as past awardees and project descriptions, please visit: https://caat.

publichealth. jhu. edu/caat-humane-education-and-caat-reduction-grants/