The Association of Doctors Against Animal Experimentation (ÄgT) recently awarded Dr. Johanna Berg and Prof. Dr. Jens Kurreck, Head of the Department of Applied Biochemistry at the Technical University of Berlin, with the Herbert Stiller Prize for their work on "Clean Bioprinting". The aim of this project is to print human organ models completely without the use of any animal products.
With around 270 participants from 28 countries, the Congress of the European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EUSAAT) is the largest 3R congress in Europe. It is located in Linz at the Danube, Austria. The congress traditionally takes place in the years between the World Congresses.
The developers of a database on errors of animal experiments from the animal welfare unit of the Jena University Hospital received this year's Thuringian Animal Welfare Award. For the first time, the prize was also offered for developments in the field of reduction of animal testing.
As part of an initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) against the opioid crisis in in the United States, the University of Central Florida (UIF) in Orlando will be developing overdose models by using the multi-organ chip systems of the start-up company Hesperos. For these investigations, the UCF has received the first phase of a $3.8 million NIH grant.
Two new working groups involving renowned American scientists are being funded by the Charité Foundation with a total of 450,000 euros over the next three years.
Under the name SuBiTU (Surface Biology Testing Unit), researchers from the departments of mechanical engineering and biology at the TU Darmstadt have developed a test chamber with which they can observe the growth of cells on bone implants. Wth the new chamber they can reduce animal experiments.
Belgian researchers have used a new method to prove finest carbon particles (black carbon) on the fetal side of the placenta. The contamination was already detected in the 12th pregnancy week. The concentration correlated with the air pollution at the mother's place of residence.
Prof. Dr. Jens Kurreck and Dr. Johanna Berg from the Technical University of Berlin, as well as Dr. Mario Rothbauer from the Vienna University of Technology have received the this year's Herbert Stiller Award for animal-free research. The prize was presented by the Animal Welfare Organization Doctors Against Animal Experiments.
According to the press office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agency has issued a memo under which the reduction of animal testing in toxicology should have priority.
American researchers have measured electrical activity in miniature brains, which, according to the researchers, are supposed to be similar to brain waves in premature infants.