Special Issues
Special Issue - Development of an Evidence-Based Risk Assessment Framework
Editorial
Thomas Hartung and Daniel Krewski

Dear readers,

This Special Issue of ALTEX comprises the proceedings of the workshop on Development of an Evidence-Based Risk Assessment Framework held at the University of Ottawa in December, 2018. The workshop was jointly organized by the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa and the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing at Johns Hopkins University. ...

Special Issue - Microphysiological Systems in Drug Discovery and Safety (in progress)
Editorial
Terry R. Van Vleet

Dear readers,

The International Consortium for Innovation and Quality in Pharmaceutical Development (IQ) Microphysiological Systems (MPS) Affiliate was formed in June of 2018. The IQ MPS Affiliate has previously prepared a Themed Collection of organ- and application-specific manuscripts that highlight challenges and gaps for use of MPS models, considerations for characterization, and initial contexts of use in the pharmaceutical industry (Ainslie et al., 2019; Baudy et al., 2020; Fabre et al., 2020; Fowler et al., 2020; Hardwick et al., 2020; Peters et al., 2020; Peterson et al., 2020; Phillips et al., 2020; Pointon et al., 2021). ...