14 May 2025

9:15 Registration of Participants

9:30 New Approach Methodologies (NAMs): the strategic vision in Science.

Francesca Caloni- Università degli Studi di Milano Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Milan

10:30 Complex – more complex – most complex – but why?

Arno Gutleb – Invitrolize and UMF, Cluj Napoca

11:30 Advanced in vitro Liver Models: Hepatocytes, Liver-on-a-Chip, and Beyond for Drug-Induced Toxicity Assessment

Hassan Rashidi – Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30 A new era of infectious disease modeling

Doris Wilflingseder – Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck

14:30 Combining disruptive technologies for a Human Exposome Project

Thomas Hartung – Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

15:30 Introduction to MPS qualification as fit for purpose models

Marisa Meloni – Salus ante Omnia, In vitro Science and NAMs expert

16:30 Open Debate with the Participants

15 May 2025

9:00 Rethinking Medical Device Testing: The Rise of NAMs

Helena Kandarova – Centre of Experimental Medicine (CEM), Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

10:00 Open Debate with the Participants and Conclusion