Biography:
Hajime Kojima, Ph.D., is the secretary general of Japanese Center for the Validation of Alternative methods (JaCVAM) and the section chief of Division of risk assessment, Biological Safety Research Center (BSRC) in National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) contributing to the identification and evaluation of in vitro test methods for their potential validation, in the field of genotoxicity and local toxicity (skin and eye). He holds several publications in refereed journals dealing with in vitro toxicity assay as well as validation study. Until now, he has contributed to be approved more than 10 test methods developed by Japanese in the OECD Test Guidelines.
Title : Guidance on the use of alternative test methods for the safety assessment of cosmetics and quasi-drugs