ICCS Announces Donna Macmillan, Ph.D., Is Joining ICCS as Director, Education and Regulatory Engagement

December 18, 2023

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Donna Macmillan, Ph.D., Director, Education and Regulatory Engagement

We are pleased to announce that Donna Macmillan, Ph.D., will join ICCS as Director, Education and Regulatory Engagement. In this new role, she will work to develop strategies and the associated work plans to achieve the goals of education and regulatory acceptance for animal-free safety assessments.

She is the former Senior Principal Strategist, Regulatory Science, Humane Society International. Prior to that role, she has worked as a Principal Scientist at a leading in silico software organisation sharing her expertise in non-animal skin sensitization and skin/eye irritation safety assessment as well as a medicinal chemist at a pharmaceutical manufacturer. She has led sub-groups within several multi-stakeholder collaborations, including OECD and CIAO. She is published in several scientific journals.

Donna holds a Ph.D. in Organic Medicinal Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Glad to have you on the team, Donna

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