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Nomination of Professor Dr med. Horst Spielmann as the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award 2012

Nomination of Professor Dr med. Horst Spielmann as the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial... ATLA 40, 72, 2012 72 Nomination of Professor Dr med. Horst Spielmann as the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award 2012 At its annual board meeting on 12 January 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, the Björn Ekwall Memorial Foundation (BEMF) nominated Professor Horst Spielmann, from Germany, as the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award for the year 2012. The Board of the Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicology (SSCT) accepted this nomination unan- imously, on 16 January 2012. The BEMF Award 2012 to Professor Spielmann is in recognition of his outstanding scientific work in the field of in vitro toxicology, to which he has contributed significantly by developing non-animal tests aimed at reducing and replacing animal experiments. The cell models for toxicity testing that were developed by Professor Spielmann are used world- wide, including the use of mouse fibroblasts for the estimation of phototoxicity and chemical toxicity, or human keratinocyte cultures for the testing of chemical irritation potential. He also developed the embryonic stem cell test (EST), which is an in vitro embryotoxicity test involving two permanent mouse cell lines, namely, 3T3 fibroblasts and embryonic stem cells. Professor Spielmann was born on 3 April 1942, Horst Spielmann in Lublin, Poland. He defended his PhD thesis in 1969, and became Dr med. at the Department of Toiletry and Perfumery Association (COLIPA). He Pathology in the Medical School of the Freie is a member of several national and international Universität Berlin (FUB). During the years boards and advisory committees involved in the 1969–1980, he was a postdoctoral student and validation of in vitro tests, e.g. a co-ordinator of then assistant professor at the Institute of Toxic - the EU/ECVAM project entitled “Validation study ology in the FUB Medical School. From 1981, he to evaluate in vitro tests using reconstituted was the Head of the Department of Pharmacology human skin models for assessing the skin irrita- and Toxicology at the Battelle Institute, Frankfurt tion potential of test chemicals”. am Main, and later, from 1983 to 1989, director Professor Spielmann has obtained several inter- and professor at the Federal Health Institute, in national awards for his contribution in the field of Berlin. From 1989 to 2007, he was the Head of in vitro toxicology. He collaborated with Dr Björn ZEBET, the German National Centre for the Ekwall for several years, and he is an associate Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to editor of ATLA, which published all the papers of Animal Experiments, while from 2004 to 2007, he the MEIC project. He has participated in several of also was the Head of the Federal Institute for Risk the SSCT’s workshops as an invited lecturer, and Assessment (BfR) and the Head of the Department has had a fruitful influence on research in Nordic of Scientific Services at BfR. countries. Professor Spielmann retired from ZEBET in Professor Spielmann has published over 240 2007, and at present, he is an Honorary Professor articles in peer-review journals, 99 of his articles have been published in books, and he is the author of Regulatory Toxicology at the FUB, and also a consultant of the President of the BfR. or editor of 18 books. Since 1987, Professor Spielmann has been a chairperson and/or member of several manage- Dr Ada Kolman, Associate Professor President of the BEMF ment teams of German and international valida- On behalf of the Björn Ekwall Memorial tion studies funded by the German Ministry for Foundation Board Education, by the European Commission, by the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Stockholm, 31 January 2012 Methods (ECVAM), and by the European Cosmetic, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

Nomination of Professor Dr med. Horst Spielmann as the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award 2012

Kolman, Ada
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals , Volume 40 (2): 1 – May 1, 2012
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ATLA 40, 72, 2012 72 Nomination of Professor Dr med. Horst Spielmann as the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award 2012 At its annual board meeting on 12 January 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, the Björn Ekwall Memorial Foundation (BEMF) nominated Professor Horst Spielmann, from Germany, as the recipient of the Björn Ekwall Memorial Award for the year 2012. The Board of the Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicology (SSCT) accepted this nomination unan- imously, on 16 January 2012. The BEMF Award 2012 to Professor Spielmann is in recognition of his outstanding scientific work in the field of in vitro toxicology, to which he has contributed significantly by developing non-animal tests aimed at reducing and replacing animal experiments. The cell models for toxicity testing that were developed by Professor Spielmann are used world- wide, including the use of mouse fibroblasts for the estimation of phototoxicity and chemical toxicity, or human keratinocyte cultures for the testing of chemical irritation potential. He also developed the embryonic stem cell test (EST), which is an in vitro embryotoxicity test involving two permanent mouse cell lines, namely, 3T3 fibroblasts and embryonic stem cells. Professor Spielmann was born on 3 April 1942, Horst Spielmann in Lublin, Poland. He defended his PhD thesis in 1969, and became Dr med. at the Department of Toiletry and Perfumery Association (COLIPA). He Pathology in the Medical School of the Freie is a member of several national and international Universität Berlin (FUB). During the years boards and advisory committees involved in the 1969–1980, he was a postdoctoral student and validation of in vitro tests, e.g. a co-ordinator of then assistant professor at the Institute of Toxic - the EU/ECVAM project entitled “Validation study ology in the FUB Medical School. From 1981, he to evaluate in vitro tests using reconstituted was the Head of the Department of Pharmacology human skin models for assessing the skin irrita- and Toxicology at the Battelle Institute, Frankfurt tion potential of test chemicals”. am Main, and later, from 1983 to 1989, director Professor Spielmann has obtained several inter- and professor at the Federal Health Institute, in national awards for his contribution in the field of Berlin. From 1989 to 2007, he was the Head of in vitro toxicology. He collaborated with Dr Björn ZEBET, the German National Centre for the Ekwall for several years, and he is an associate Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to editor of ATLA, which published all the papers of Animal Experiments, while from 2004 to 2007, he the MEIC project. He has participated in several of also was the Head of the Federal Institute for Risk the SSCT’s workshops as an invited lecturer, and Assessment (BfR) and the Head of the Department has had a fruitful influence on research in Nordic of Scientific Services at BfR. countries. Professor Spielmann retired from ZEBET in Professor Spielmann has published over 240 2007, and at present, he is an Honorary Professor articles in peer-review journals, 99 of his articles have been published in books, and he is the author of Regulatory Toxicology at the FUB, and also a consultant of the President of the BfR. or editor of 18 books. Since 1987, Professor Spielmann has been a chairperson and/or member of several manage- Dr Ada Kolman, Associate Professor President of the BEMF ment teams of German and international valida- On behalf of the Björn Ekwall Memorial tion studies funded by the German Ministry for Foundation Board Education, by the European Commission, by the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Stockholm, 31 January 2012 Methods (ECVAM), and by the European Cosmetic,

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