The this year's Animal Welfare Research Prize of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture (BMEL) is awarded to Professor Dirk Görlich and Dr Tino Pleiner from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. The scientists have developed a method that can replace the production of secondary antibodies in animals. The two scientists have succeeded in developing a new type of antibody, so-called secondary nanobodies, which can be multiplied without the use of animals.

The JRC's EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL ECVAM) has launched a second call for tender to review alternative methods and models being used for research in the areas of Cardiovascular diseases, Breast Cancer, Immunogenicity testing for advanced therapy medicinal products, Autoimmune diseases and Immune Oncology Models.

The Society of Toxicology (SOT) is accepting applications through Monday, October 9, for the following grant opportunities.

Hormone-disrupting chemicals in our environment can affect early neurodevelopment in children, but little is known about the exact mechanisms for this interference. A new EU funded research project, coordinated from Karolinska Institutet, now aims to learn more and to develop better screening and testing tools.