We are pleased to announce that Dr Pilar Prieto of the EU Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy is the winner of the ALTEX Prize 2020 as first author of the article “Investigating cell type specific mechanisms contributing to acute oral toxicity“. The article was selected by the ALTEX Editorial Board, the Board of ALTEX Edition and the ALTEX editorial office as the best article published in ALTEX during 2019. The award will be presented at the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Maastricht in 2021.

The ALTEX Prize is awarded annually and is kindly sponsored by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation.