Ellen Fritsche receives Poulsson Prize
Professor Ellen Fritsche, adjunct professor of toxicology at the University of Basel and director of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, was awarded this year's Poulsson Prize by the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
28 June 2024
Ellen Fritsche is an internationally recognized scientist within the field of toxicology and director of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology SCAHT in Basel. She was previously a professor at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf and headed the working group for alternative methods at IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine.
She has contributed to the scientific development of alternative methods to traditional animal tests, especially of methods for studying neurotoxicity during development, and for bringing such methods into the process in the OECD system for international accept of such methods. She has inspired Norwegian scientists to go into research concerning these methods. She leads and participates in big international research projects and has authorised more than 90 scientific papers, as well as scientific opinions and text book chapters.
The Poulsson prize is a recognition of the substantial contribution that professor Dr. Ellen Fritsche has made to the scientific development of the field of toxicology and as an inspirer also in Norway.
