The Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB has developed an in vitro dog skin model that can be used to test medical therapeutics for the treatment of canine skin diseases.

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is offering an Austria-wide funding program for research into alternative methods to animal testing using resources from the Austrian Ministry of Science. The aim is to accelerate the establishment of alternative methods based on the 3Rs principle.

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has commissioned a consortium with the participation of BASF SE to scientifically investigate the reliability and relevance of new technologies as alternatives to animal testing, so-called New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), and to promote their use in the future. NAMs include in-vitro models, computer methods and omics techniques (genetic analyses of the entire genome, all expressed proteins of a cell and metabolic functions).

As announced by the 3R Center Tübingen on LinkedIN, the renowned scientist for organ-on-chip research at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and NMI Reutlingen, Prof. Peter Loskill, has been appointed to the Permanent Senate Commission for Animal Experimental Research of the German Research Foundation (DFG).