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Minimising and improving animal use in the next decade "Our Vision: 2015-2025" sets out the NC3Rs ambition for the next ten years, in five inter-related areas; Practice, Procedures, People, Places and Policy. ![]() |
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Funding Panel vacancies We are inviting applications from leading scientists to join the NC3Rs funding panels for grants, studentships and fellowships from January 2015. ![]() |
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Project Grant applications opening soon Our 2015 Project Grant scheme opens for applications later this month. Project grants support the development of new 3Rs approaches and technologies. This year we have £1.8 million to award. Awards are for up to 36 months with the amount requested dependent on the science. ![]() |
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OECD launches its knowledge base on Adverse Outcome Pathways The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched the Adverse Outcome Pathway Knowledge Base on 25 September. This joint initiative between the OECD, U.S Environmental Protection Agency and the European Commission Joint Research Centre is a web-based platform which aims to use crowd-sourcing to bring together all the knowledge on how chemicals can induce adverse effects, providing a focal point for AOP development and dissemination as well as potential replacement of some toxicity studies using animals. ![]() |
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Calling for 3Rs Prize nominations The international NC3Rs Prize is now open for applications. The prize recognises a piece of research published in the last three years which has a 3Rs impact on the use of animals in the life sciences. The prize consists of a grant of £18k, plus a personal award of £2k. Highly-commended entries receive a £4k grant and £1k personal award. The deadline for applications is 5 December 2014. ![]() |
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Job opportunities at the NC3Rs
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Animal Science Meeting 2014 Applications are invited for the Animal Science Meeting 2014, hosted by the Home Office (ASRU) and the Animal Science Group of the Society of Biology. A mix of talks, panel discussions and workshops will address issues around openness on animal research, experimental designs, publication of negative results and the implementation of ARRIVE guidelines. |
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Modelling Microbial Infection Modelling Microbial Infection is a Society of General Microbiology-led meeting on new models for bacterial, viral, fungal and parasite infections. The conference will be looking at alternatives to animal models or improved approaches to using animal models for studying immunity and for drug discovery. The NC3Rs will be hosting a one hour session at the meeting. ![]() |
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2014 CRACK IT Challenge deadline This year's CRACK IT Challenges: QSARs Mix: To use existing toxicological data repositories to develop in silico tools to predict toxicology endpoints for substances of interest. Targeting off-targets: To develop novel approaches to address the potential human safety issues arising from chemicals interacting with 'off-target' receptors. Neuratect: To generate physiologically-relevant human stem cell-based models to identify neurotoxicity. ![]()
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New Solution: partners sought Developing a multi-organ toxicity testing assay in zebrafish ![]() |
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New Solution: partners sought An in silico model to optimise drug development regimens for clinical cancer studies ![]() |
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CRACK IT Solutions partnership Ostara are the latest organisation to be awarded funding through CRACK IT Solutions to work with the Cancer Research UK Transgenic Service to evaluate and further refine their original pessary for inducing pseudopregnancy in the transgenic mouse breeding process. ![]() |
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Launching Our Vision "Our Vision 2015-2025" was launched at an afternoon event in London attended by over 150 of our stakeholders. See photographs from the event. ![]() |
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NC3Rs at the British Science Festival 2014 Photographs from our session at this year's British Science Festival: Keeping a watchful eye on animal behaviour. ![]() |
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Public attitudes to animal research Dr Vicky Robinson takes a look at the findings of the most recent Ipsos MORI poll on current public opinion on the use of animals in research. ![]() |
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