Citation: Chang, X.; Tan, Y.-M.; Allen,
D.G.; Bell, S.; Brown, P.C.; Browning,
L.; Ceger, P.; Gearhart, J.; Hakkinen,
P.J.; Kabadi, S.V.; et al. IVIVE:
Facilitating the Use of In Vitro
Toxicity Data in Risk Assessment and
Decision Making. Toxics 2022, 10, 232.
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IVIVE: Facilitating the Use of In Vitro Toxicity Data in Risk
Assessment and Decision Making
Xiaoqing Chang
1,†
, Yu-Mei Tan
2,†
, David G. Allen
1
, Shannon Bell
1
, Paul C. Brown
3
, Lauren Browning
1,‡
,
Patricia Ceger
1
, Jeffery Gearhart
4,§
, Pertti J. Hakkinen
5,§
, Shruti V. Kabadi
6
, Nicole C. Kleinstreuer
7
,
Annie Lumen
8, ‖
, Joanna Matheson
9
, Alicia Paini
10,¶
, Heather A. Pangburn
11
, Elijah J. Petersen
12
,
Emily N. Reinke
13
, Alexandre J. S. Ribeiro
3,**
, Nisha Sipes
14
, Lisa M. Sweeney
15
, John F. Wambaugh
14
,
Ronald Wange
3
, Barbara A. Wetmore
14
and Moiz Mumtaz
16,
*
1
Inotiv-RTP, 601 Keystone Park Drive, Suite 200, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA;
xiaoqing.chang@inotivco.com (X.C.); dave.allen@inotivco.com (D.G.A.); shannon.bell@inotivco.com (S.B.);
lauren.browning@icf.com (L.B.); patricia.ceger@inotivco.com (P.C.)
2
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive,
Durham, NC 27709, USA; tan.cecilia@epa.gov
3
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 10903 New Hampshire
Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA; paul.brown@fda.hhs.gov (P.C.B.); axribeiro@hovione.com (A.J.S.R.);
ronald.wange@fda.hhs.gov (R.W.)
4
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory, 711 Human Performance Wing,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA; jgearhart@hjfresearch.org
5
National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 8600 Rockville Pike,
Bethesda, MD 20894, USA; pertti.hakkinen@nih.gov
6
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Food Additive
Safety, 5001 Campus Drive, HFS-275, College Park, MD 20740, USA; shruti.kabadi@fda.hhs.gov
7
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the
Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA;
nicole.kleinstreuer@nih.gov
8
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research, 3900 NCTR Road,
Jefferson, AR 72079, USA; alumen@amgen.com
9
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Division of Toxicology and Risk Assessment, 5 Research Place,
Rockville, MD 20850, USA; jmatheson@cpsc.gov
10
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), 21027 Ispra, Italy; alicia.paini@esqlabs.com
11
Air Force Research Laboratory, 711 Human Performance Wing, 2729 R Street, Area B, Building 837,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA; heather.pangburn.1@us.af.mil
12
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA; elijah.petersen@nist.gov
13
U.S. Army Public Health Center, 8252 Blackhawk Rd., Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010, USA;
emily.n.reinke.civ@mail.mil
14
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure,
109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA; sipes.nisha@epa.gov (N.S.);
wambaugh.john@epa.gov (J.F.W.); wetmore.barbara@epa.gov (B.A.W.)
15
UES, Inc., 4401 Dayton-Xenia Road, Beavercreek, OH 45432, Assigned to Air Force Research Laboratory,
711 Human Performance Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA; lisa.sweeney.3.ctr@us.af.mil
16
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Office of the Associate Director for Science, 1600 Clifton
Road, S102-2, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
* Correspondence: mgm4@cdc.gov
† These authors contributed equally to this work.
‡ Current address: ICF, 2635 Meridian Pkwy Suite 200, Durham, NC 27713, USA.
§ Retired.
‖ Current address: Clinical Pharmacology Modeling and Simulations, Amgen, South San Francisco,
CA 94080, USA.
¶ Current address: esqLABS GmbH, Hambierich 34, 26683 Saterland, Germany.
** Current address: R&D Analytical Development, Hovione Farmaciência S.A., 1649-038 Lisboa, Portugal.
Abstract: During the past few decades, the science of toxicology has been undergoing a transfor-
mation from observational to predictive science. New approach methodologies (NAMs), including
in vitro assays, in silico models, read-across, and in vitro to in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE), are being
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