Thomas Hartung – The Future of Healthcare
7. 9. 2017
Professor Hartung is an expert in clinical and experimental pharmacology and toxicology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with more than 500 publications. Thomas strives for a paradigm shift in toxicity testing with the goal of improving public health. As a former head of the European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center, he was dedicated to topics such as toxicity testing, evidence-based toxicology, and the development of new approaches based on annotated pathways of toxicity.
After relocating to the United States, he became director for the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing and a laboratory for developmental neurotoxicity research at John Hopkins in Baltimore.