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Animal Protection Research Award of the Federal Ministry goes to Sepsis Researcher
Wednesday, 15 November 2017 06:52The 36th presentation of the Animal Welfare Research Award of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture takes place in Berlin today. This year’s happy winners is Dr. Alexander Mosig and his team from Jena University Hospital. They not only develop organs on microchips but also integrate their own immune cells in order to get closer to the human situation. They study their function as well as their behaviour in organ diseases.
European roadmap for organ-on-a-chip technology
Tuesday, 14 November 2017 13:04A new research consortium is developing a roadmap for further development of organ-on-a-chip technology on behalf of the EU. Under the leadership of the Leiden University Medical Center as well as the Dutch research organisation hDMT (Institute for human Organ and Disease Model Technologies), the participants are conducting research with the aim of establishing a European infrastructure to enable the coordinated development, production and implementation of organ-on-a-chip systems. The consortium is funded by the EU within the framework FET Open and brings together six leading European research institutions, including the German Fraunhofer IGB.
Elastic Hydrogel with adhesive molecule promotes Neurogenesis
Thursday, 02 November 2017 12:38Researchers from the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Institute of Physiological Chemistry, led by Dr. Marcelo Salierno, have developed a promising technique be able to facilitate the differentiation of stem cells into neurons. This even enables to accelerate the maturation process.
Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize 2018
Thursday, 02 November 2017 11:12For the seventh time, the German Research Foundation (DFG) wants to award the Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize to those scientists who are considered to have made exemplary and sustained efforts to improve the welfare of animals in research. The prize is endowed with up to 100,000 euros.
Communicator Prize of the DFG 2018: Call for Applications
Thursday, 02 November 2017 11:10The German Research Foundation call offers scientists to apply for the "Communicator Prize - Science Prize of the "Stifterverband" of the DFG or submit proposals till January the 5th.
Japan: Scientific Panel recommends termination of long-term testing of dogs
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:13As reported by the Humane Society International on its website, a scientific panel appointed by the Japanese Food Safety Commission recommended that the long-term toxicity test on dogs be used to test pesticides can be abolished. If the competent authorities agree, such tests then would only be carried out by the OECD member country South Korea.
The FDA Recruits British Organs-on-Chips to Speed Up Drug Development
Tuesday, 31 October 2017 15:45CN Bio Innovations, a spin-out from the University of Oxford, will be working with scientists from the FDA’s Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research with the aim of integrating organ-on-a-chip technology in the drug development process to improve preclinical testing while taking animals out of the equation.
KU LEUVEN: Cell type identification with SCENIC
Friday, 13 October 2017 10:45A team from the Lab of Computational Biology (LCB) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, led by Computational biologist Prof. Stein Aerts has developed a computer program called SCENIC that is able to identify different cell types based on their gene expression patterns, quickly and accurately.
CRACK It-Challenges in 3R: Applications possible
Monday, 09 October 2017 10:01CRACK IT is a funding competition (Challenges) and technology partnering hub (Solutions) designed to accelerate the development, application and commercialisation of technologies with 3Rs potential as they emerge from the research base. CRACK IT has been developed to facilitate active collaboration between the pharmaceutical, chemical and consumer products industries, contract research organisations, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the academic sector.
NC3R: International 3Rs prize
Friday, 06 October 2017 13:26Each year the NC3Rs awards a prize to highlight an outstanding original contribution to scientific and technological advances in the 3Rs, published in the last three years. The award consists of a £28k prize grant and £2k personal award. Highly-commended entries receive a £4k grant and a £1k personal award.
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