In 2013, Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) announced that NIEHS would move forward with a different philosophy toward ICCVAM whereby the partner regulatory agencies would drive ICCVAM’s activities. At the same time, NICEATM would expand its scope to provide bioinformatic and computational toxicology support to the NIEHS Division of the NTP and its Biomolecular Screening Branch.
In 2014 and 2015, projects initiated under this new vision began to bear fruit, with potential impact on animal use worldwide.Some key accomplishments include: