TeachMeet: Three Rs in Education – Teachers present their Learning Scenarios
Susanna Louhimies works at the European Commission, the Directorate-General for the Environment since 1996. She is responsible for the EU Directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and any horizontal issues in relation to scientific, educational and regulatory use of animals. As an integral part of her portfolio she follows closely the implementation of the principle of the Three Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of animal use) in different policy areas. She is also responsible for the co-ordination of the regulatory acceptance of new and updated testing methods in the EU legislative framework for chemicals (REACH), as well as promoting their acceptance internationally, mainly through the work of the OECD.
Dr. Marco Straccia is the founder of FRESCI and SCIENCE&STRATEGY SL; he is a former associate professor and researcher in Stem Cell Technology and Regenerative Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain; 2012), a M.B.A. (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya; 2018); a M.S. in International Health and Tropical Medicine (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain; 2008) and a B.S. in Biology (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”; 005). Dr. Straccia has been a researcher for the last eighteen years in the field of basic and applied biomedicine in many institutions in Europe and working on different experimental paradigms (in vivo and in vitro), with a FELASA certification since 2008. He has a deep experience in stem cell biology and has developed advanced in vitro models for high-throughput drug discovery, safety testing and disease modelling during his postdoctoral period. He co-authored seventeen peer-reviewed publications and contributed to the first two editions of “Guide to the quality and safety of tissue and cells for human application” by European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare of Council of Europe.
Jukka Sund - is a molecular biologist and biochemist from Helsinki, Finland. He did his Master’s thesis on virology, and PhD on the health effects of engineered nanomaterials. He has a wide experience of different techniques and technologies in life sciences: e.g. molecular biology methods, cell culture, proteomics, electron microscopy and more recently high throughput technologies. He has been working at European Union Reference Laboratory for the Validation of Alternative Methods (EURL ECVAM) for three years. He is the main colleague responsible for the robotic platforms. Jukka’s ambition is to automate everything, since the robots are more precise, more reliable, and much faster than a human. It does not sleep and creates a log of everything it has done.
