Amy Clippinger

Dr. Amy Clippinger is the director of PETA's Regulatory Testing Department and president of the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. She received her doctorate in cellular and molecular biology and genetics in 2009 from Drexel University College of Medicine and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Cancer Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2012. Having joined the Science Consortium in 2012, she collaborates with industry, academia, and regulatory agencies to promote robust non-animal toxicity testing approaches. In this capacity, she has organized expert working groups, workshops, webinars, and publications on topics including acute systemic toxicity testing, inhalation toxicity testing, and eye irritation testing. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods (SACATM), which advises the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) and the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM). She serves on the editorial board of Applied In Vitro Toxicology and is a past president of the Society of Toxicology's In Vitro and Alternative Methods Specialty Section. In her free time, Amy enjoys life in Philly-trying out new vegan dishes at restaurants, seeing shows, and picking out fresh fruits and veggies at the Rittenhouse Square Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings. She hopes her story will show young scientists that you can have it all-a robust career in the sciences that helps save lives and doesn't harm animals.