The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) launches its call to apply for the 2016 3Rs Science Prize. This year, the EPAA will grant a Prize for already achieved research, or a project already at the completion stage with outstanding results. The price money is € 10,000.

With a chair in translational wound research at Witten University Herdecke (UW/H), the surgeon Prof. Dr. Ewa Klara Stürmer wants to investigate new treatment options for poorly healing wounds using three-dimensional skin models.

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During her Ph. D. work at the University of Twente, Department of Applied Analysis and Biomedical Signal & System, Bettina Schwab has discovered an increased concentration of a particular protein, called connexin-36, in deceased Parkinson's patients. The protein could be the cause of a disturbed communication between brain cells, which causes movement problems in the Parkinson's disease, as is said in a current press release from the University of Trente.