The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), founded in 1981, is part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Whiting School of Engineering.
We promote humane science by supporting creation, development, and validation of alternatives to animals in research, product safety testing, and education. We seek to effect change by working with industry, government, and academia to find new ways to replace animals with non-animal methods, reduce the number of animals necessary, or refine methods to make them less painful or stressful to the animals involved. CAAT is led by Director Thomas Hartung, Deputy Director Fenna Sillé, and Program Directors Lena Smirnova and Alexandra Maertens.
Curious about our parent institutions, Johns Hopkins University and University of Konstanz?
CAAT-Europe, housed at the University of Konstanz, coordinates transatlantic activities to promote education in humane science. It also participates in, and coordinates, publicly and privately funded European projects.
CAAT-Europe’s objectives include assembling a network of European experts and actively participating in the Transatlantic Think Tank for Toxicology (T4). It aims to coordinate knowledge exchange programs with the United States. It also works to set up international research consortia, support ALTEX as the official journal of CAAT, EUSAAT, and T4. CAAT-Europe collaborates with sponsors on strategic projects promoting humane science and innovative toxicology.
Prof. Thomas Hartung is the program liaison representing Johns Hopkins, and Prof. Marcel Leist is the University of Konstanz liaison. Thomas Hartung is also a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Konstanz.
CAAT Advisory Board
Anne Marie Api (RIFM)
Tara Barton-Maclaren (Health Canada)
Rebecca Bascom (Penn State University)
Iris Camacho (EPA)
Charu Chandrasekera (Canadian 3Rs Center)
Lowry Curley (Axosim)
Rodger Curren (IIVS)
Suzy Fitzpatrick (FDA)
Jack Fowle (Science to Inform, LLC)
Tony Gaspari (Thomas Jefferson University)
Sean Gehen (Corteva Agriscience)
Wally Hayes (Harvard)
Eric Hutchinson (Johns Hopkins University)
Sabra Klein (Johns Hopkins University)
Nicole Kleinstreuer (NICEATM)
Daniel Krewski (University of Ottawa)
Amaia Irizar (IFRA)
Fran Kruszewski (Cleaning Institute)
Jacob Larson (Herbalife Nutrition)
Sue Leary (ARDF)
Paul Locke (Johns Hopkins University)
Anna Lowit (EPA)
Kimberly Norman (Clorox)
Kathryn Page (Clorox)
Kelly Pate (MIT)
George Pugh (Coca-Cola)
Bernard Robaire (McGill University)
Andrew Rowan (WellBeing International)
Thomas Russell (EPA)
Tim Shaffer (EPA)
Danilo Tagle (NCATS/NIH)
Weida Tong (FDA)
Matthias Vey (IFRA)
Kate Willett (Humane Society International)
Cody Wilson (Clorox)
Nakissa Sadrieh (FDA)
Kristie Sullivan (IIVS)
Amanda Ulrey (IIVS)
Daniella Urbach-Ross (Colgate)
CAAT Europe Advisory Board
Teodora Baris (CAAT-Europe)
Luisa Bastos (Eurogroup for Animals)
Mario Beilman (Boehringer Ingelheim)
Anne Bonhoff (UL)
Alexander Burkle (University of Konstanz)
Francois Busquet (CAAT-Europe)
Francesca Caloni (University Milano)
Daniel Dietrich (University of Konstanz)
Dorothee Funk-Weyer (BASF)
Tuula Heinonen (FICAM)
Katja Hempel (Boehringer Ingelheim)
Josepha Ittner (CAAT-Europe)
Harald Krug (Nanocase)
Robert Landsiedel (BASF)
Marcel Leist (CAAT-Europe)
Stefano Lorenzetti (Italian National Institute of Health)
Costanza Rovida (CAAT-Europe)
Michael Schwarz (University of Tübingen)
Thomas Steger Hartmann (Bayer)
Didier Verloo (EFSA)
Sonja von Aulock (ALTEX)
Kristina Wagner (Deutscher Tierschutzbund e.v.)
Doris Wilfligseder (Ignaz Semmelweis Institute)