ICCS Scientific Advisory Committee

Prof. Maurice Whelan is Deputy Director of the Directorate for Health and Food of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) based in Italy, and head of its Systems Toxicology Unit. He also heads the JRC's EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing, better known as ECVAM. Maurice is the EU co-chair of the OECD Advisory Group on Emerging Science for Chemicals Assessment (ESCA); a member of the Steering Committee of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA); and chair of the Regulatory Advisory Board of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (EUROoCS). His publications include over 200 scientific papers and a book on the validation of alternative methods for toxicity testing. He has held a number of external appointments including the 2017-2018 Francqui Chair for alternative methods at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Belgium), and is currently visiting Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Liverpool (UK).