Engaging Researchers in Animal-Free 21st Century Science

Workshop No. 8: Hands-On Toxicology with Agentic AI Tools

Agentic AI systems are revolutionizing modern computational toxicology by transitioning research from static database lookups to active, autonomous scientific execution. In this workshop, researchers will gain direct experience deploying AI coding assistants and command-line agentic tools for nonanimal toxicity evaluation, automated hazard assessment, and evidence synthesis.

Participants will work through real-world computational toxicology exercises, learning how agentic LLM workflows interact with developer environments to query public chemical databases (such as ChEMBL, PubChem, GTEx, and ToxIndex), execute data processing pipelines, and accelerate New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) without compromising scientific accuracy.

Date: Dec. 10 
Time: 10 AM ET/4 PM CET

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Technology Showcases and Research Trainings

The Physicians Committee collaborates with academic and industry leaders to host in-person training events and technology showcases that highlight animal-free methods for biomedical research and regulatory testing. These events take place at conferences and on-site at different laboratory facilities. Learn more about our past events and contact msinger [at] pcrm.org if you are interested in working with us to host an event at your facility.

ERA21 Travel Award Winners Series

Through its ERA21 program, the Physicians Committee provides travel awards to support researchers using human-based nonanimal methods to present their work at conferences. This webinar series provides a platform for travel award winners to showcase their animal-free conference presentations from meetings like the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, and the Microphysiological Systems World Summit. Learn more about our travel award opportunities and view the recordings of these webinars.

ERA21 Journal Club

The ERA21 Journal Club meets at conferences and provides a forum for early-career scientists and undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students to meet and discuss relevant research articles on human-relevant biomedical research, toxicology, and policy.