Bart De Wever, Ph.D

Business Development Services in ALTernatives to EXperiments on Animals

• Doctor in Medical Sciences, Ph.D, Univ. Maastricht, The Netherlands
• > 15 years experience in in vitro tissue engineering R&D & Business Development in alternative methods to animal testing
• • 5 years Johnson & Johnson Research Foundation, Beerse, Belgium
  • 4 years Advanced Tissue Sciences, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • 7 years SkinEthic Laboratories, Nice, France
• Advisor animal alternative testing method development for Henkel, Düsseldorf, Germany (http://www.phenion.com)
• Founder of CARDAM, Center for Advanced R&D on Alternative Methods at the Flemish Institute of Technology VITO, Mol, Belgium
• Member of European Commission EPAA Partnership on Alternatives Approaches Brussels, Belgium
• Member of the Alternatives Task Force of the European Cosmetic Trade Association COLIPA, Brussels, Belgium
• Executive Officer of the In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform IVTIP, The Netherlands
• Scientific External Reviewer for the EC-European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods, Ispra, Italy
• Scientific Reviewer of the US Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing CAAT, John Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
• Founder and President of the ALEXANDRA Association, Monaco
  
• > 50 publications in the field of alternative testing