• 2013 

  12.17.13 EPA Releases Chemical Screening Data on 1,800 Chemicals/Agency improves access to chemical data and announces ToxCast Data Challenges

  10.28.13 Chemical Engineering News Features Article about ToxCast Exit

  07.09.13 Environmental Health Perspectives news feature highlights Toxicity Testing in the 21st century

  06.28.13 CompTox researchers present posters at White House

  06.24.13 EPA ToxCast research featured on cover of Chemical Research in Toxicology: Profiling 976 ToxCast chemicals across 331 assays Exit

• 2012

  09.13.12 EPA Awards Almost $11 Million to Advance Chemical Safety Research

  03.12.12 U.S. EPA and L'Oreal announce research collaboration in San Francisco that may help end animal testing

• 2011

  12.07.11 EPA, along with Tox 21 partners, releases list of 10,000 chemicals being screened by robot system

  09.26.11 President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career EPA CompTox Researcher Dr. David Reif

  06.22.11 EPA Grants $3 Million for Chemical Toxicity Research

  06.15.11 EPA Improves Access to Information on Hundreds of Chemicals, Searchable databases on chemical toxicity and exposure data now available

  05.13.11 EPA & Other Agencies Hope Robot Can Speed Toxics Evaluations, End Animal Testing Exit

• 2010

  12.17.10 EPA and European Chemicals Agency Sign Agreement to Enhance Chemical Safety

  11.30.10 EPA Screens 1,000 Chemicals Using ToxCast

  10.30.10 In celebration of Children's Health Month, the Virtual Embryo Project was featured in EPA's October/November 2010 Science Matters newsletter.

  10.22.10 EPA Computational Toxicology Research Program Participates in the USA Science and Engineering Festival

  07.19.10 EPA and Other Federal Agencies Collaborate to Improve Chemical Screening

  06.30.10 EPA's CompTox program compared eight of the 14 oil spill dispersants for their relative potential to be harmful to human health and the environment.

  05.13.10 Pharmaceutical Companies Provide EPA 100 Drugs to Help Predict Toxicity

  04.29.10 EPA Opens Access to Chemical Information

• 2009

  08.19.09 $3.2M Awarded to the University of Houston for a Comp-Tox Developmental Toxicity Center

  05.28.09 Scientists Convene to Discuss New Method to Study How Toxic Chemicals Impact Human Health

• 2008

  02.15.08 NIH Collaborates with EPA to Improve the Safety Testing of Chemicals

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