COSMOS is a European Union project developing methods for determining the safety of cosmetic ingredients for humans, without the use of animals, using computational models.
COSMOS is one of seven projects forming the SEURAT-1 cluster.
SEURAT is a European research initiative with the long-term goal of achieving "Safety Evaluation Ultimately Replacing Animal Testing".
COSMOS is a unique collaboration addressing the safety assessment needs of the cosmetics industry, without the use of animals. The main aim of COSMOS is to develop freely available tools and workflows to predict the safety to humans following the use of cosmetic ingredients.
This will be achieved using computational tools such as applying thresholds of toxicological concern (TTC), in silico toxicology, in vitro data and physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling:
The five year project brings together expertise from 15 partners from academia, industry, SMEs, and regulatory agencies from across Europe as well as the USA. It is coordinated by Liverpool John Moores University, England.
Contact: info@cosmostox.eu
COSMOS is funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 266835 and the European Cosmetics Association Colipa.
LATEST NEWS
- COSMOS Job Vacancy at Liverpool John Moores University: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Development of Chemoinformatic Approaches for Predicting Toxicity. For details refer to the LJMU website
- The first issue of the COSMOS Newsletter is available for download.
- The first SEURAT-1 Annual Report is available for download here.
- The AXLR8 Alternative Testing Strategies Progress Report 2011 on achievements of EU FP6/7-funded health research can be downloaded here.
