Fiona SEWELL

Fiona Sewell is Head of Toxicology at the UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), where she takes an evidence-based approach to explore and support new opportunities to minimise and refine animal use within the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Fiona joined the NC3Rs in 2012 following a postdoctoral research associate position at Imperial College London. She has a Ph.D. in translational research from the Cancer Research Clinical Centre at the University of Leeds, and an M.Sc. in Applied Toxicology from the University of Surrey. She is a UK and European registered toxicologist, and an executive committee member and Fellow of the British Toxicology Society. She has been a member of the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC) task force on dose selection since 2019, first focusing on dose selection for repeat dose studies (Sewell et al., 2022; ECETOC-TR-138, 2022), and now with a focus on studies for developmental and reproductive toxicology (DART) (Lewis et al., 2024; NC3Rs, 2024).