Location: Johns Hopkins University (USA) Date of establishment: 2009
Duration of contract: unlimited - the initial installment funding provided by the DZF Chairholder: Prof. dr. Thomas Hartung
The Doerenkamp Zbinden Foundation has followed
the strategy to establish university chairs in addition to supporting research
projects very successfully since 2003. In December 2008 the Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore/USA entered a contract with the Doerenkamp-Zbinden
Foundation /Switzerland that enabled Johns Hopkins University to install a
permanent Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for evidence based toxicology. The
Foundation dedicated this chair to its scientific founder, the toxicologist
Gerhard Zbinden of Zurich. The year 2009 represents a milestone in the
FOundation´s promotion of alternative methods as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health named Thomas Hartung the inaugural Doerenkamp-Zbinden
Professor and Chair for Evidence-Based Toxicology. This was the first time that
a Doerenkamp-Zbinden chair for alternative methods was established outside of
Europe. The Doerenkamp-Zbinden foundation is proud to
have helped install at such prominent place a chair to support the paradigm
shift in toxicology. Large projects have already been initiated such as the t4
(Think Thank of Toxicology) a project which connects the two continents and closely
link up the DZF Chairs in Konstanz, Utrecht and Baltimore in order to make a new approach in toxicology
possible (please click on the link for more information about the t4 project:
t4 project description Information about the chair at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore can
be found at the following link
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