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NEAVS Helps Continue Dr. Ekwall’s Important Work

NEAVS Science Advisor Cecilia Clemedson, PhD, has been selected to coordinate the continuing work of Dr. Ekwall’s team, and will also serve as NEAVS Science Advisor.

(Winter 2002) — The vital work of Björn Ekwall, MD, PhD, at the Cytotoxicology Laboratory (CTLU) in Uppsala, Sweden, will continue, aided by major funding from longtime supporter NEAVS. The late Dr. Ekwall, along with his wife Barbro, is remembered as a pioneer in developing a more scientifically sound, in vitro (non-animal) approach to toxicology tests.

Cecilia Clemedson, PhD, has been selected to coordinate the continuing work of Dr. Ekwall’s team, and will also serve as NEAVS Science Advisor. She holds a PhD in neurotoxicology from the University of Stockholm, and is a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Toxicology In Vitro. She is the author of several books and articles.

Before his death, Dr. Ekwall organized the Multicenter Evaluation of In Vitro Cytotoxicity Tests (MEIC) program, combining the efforts of 29 laboratories from 15 countries to create an alternative to the cruel and unnecessary LD50 tests routinely done on large numbers of animals to test products’ harmful effects.

The project’s next phase, called EDIT (Evaluation-guided Development of New In Vitro Toxicity and Kinetic Tests), focuses on converting the MEIC findings into practical testing by further developing and evaluating batteries of additional tests for toxicity.

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