Saving and improving lives by catalyzing the world’s transition to human-specific medical research.

The Center for Contemporary Sciences (CCS) is an independent nonprofit, helping to eliminate ineffectual animal experimentation by advancing the most sophisticated human-specific research and testing methods.

We advocate for industry, governmental, academic, private and charitable investments and funding in the most productive solutions-focused research. * An example technology that CCS views as an innovative tool is human Organs-on-Chips, which are microfluidic cell culture devices with channels lined by living human organ-specific cells that interface with a human endothelial cell-lined artificial vasculature. Combined with mechanical forces that mimic the physical microenvironment of living organs, this technology can recapitulate the microarchitecture and functions of living human organs. Human Organs-on-Chips could be used for disease modeling and drug testing. Image courtesy of Wyss Institute at Harvard University.