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Month: October 2025

In silico medicine is no longer the future, itโ€™s the present.

In recent years, biomedical research has been undergoing a silent but powerful transformation.A recent Nature article โ€œAlternatives to animal testing are the futureโ€ sends a clear message: itโ€™s time to move beyond animal testing and embrace approaches that are more ethical, predictive, and human-centered. At the forefront of this shift stands in silico medicine the use of computational models and digital simulations to…
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๐‚๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐›๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ-๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ -๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง!

We are excited to share that on 5โ€“6 November 2025, Brussels will host the 20th Anniversary Conference of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA).For two decades, the EPAA has united the European Commission, industry, academia, and NGOs around one shared goal: promoting the โ€œ3Rsโ€ โ€” Replacement, Reduction and Refinement โ€” in…
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UISS al Parlamento Europeo: lโ€™eccellenza scientifica โ€œmade in UniCTโ€ protagonista a Bruxelles!ย 

Il progetto UISS โ€“ Universal Immune System Simulator, sviluppato dal Prof. Francesco Pappalardo con il supporto del Gruppo COMBINE del Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco e della Salute dellโ€™Universitร  di Catania, รจ stato recentemente presentato al Parlamento Europeo durante โ€œExcellence in Health Scienceโ€, evento promosso dal Committee on Public Health (SANT). A rappresentarlo, la prof.ssa Liesbet Geris (KU Leuven, Universitรฉ de Liรจge), direttrice esecutiva della Virtual Physiological…
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