Refinement of tickling protocols to improve positive animal welfare in laboratory rats Principal Investigator: Professor Alistair Lawrence Scotland’s Rural College Project grant
Establishing Drosophila melanogaster as part of the pre-clinical pipeline for anti-metastatic cancer drug discovery Principal Investigator: Dr Kyra Campbell University of Sheffield Project grant
Transfer of an in vitro model for the evaluation of anticoccidial compounds Principal Investigator: Dr Virginia Marugan-Hernandez Royal Veterinary College Skills and Knowledge Transfer grant
Replacement of animal use in measuring cardiomyocyte response to drug safety profiling using a novel NMR metabolomics technology Principal Investigator: Dr Rachel Oldershaw University of Liverpool PhD Studentship
Targeted protein degradation as a novel approach to study protein function in human platelets Principal Investigator: Professor Ingeborg Hers University of Bristol PhD Studentship
A novel in vitro reporter system for blood stem cell activity Principal Investigator: Dr David Kent University of York PhD Studentship
Refining the tagging of wild fish and sharks Principal Investigator: Dr Matthew Witt University of Exeter PhD Studentship
Understanding how altered brain metabolism causes mitochondrial disease Principal Investigator: Dr Joseph Bateman King's College London PhD Studentship
Combining a fully synthetic hydrogel with human intestinal organoids to model pathological matrix remodelling in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Principal Investigator: Dr Eileen Gentleman King's College London PhD Studentship
3D bioprinted microtissues to develop patient-specific non-animal technologies (NAT) in cancer drug development Principal Investigator: Dr Deepali Pal Northumbria University PhD Studentship
Insects as models to study wound healing, infection and the wound microbiome Principal Investigator: Dr Ronan McCarthy Brunel University PhD Studentship
A 3Rs approach to investigate the feto-maternal interface: visualisation of pathogen and antibody in a 3D in vitro human placental model Principal Investigator: Professor Aras Kadioglu University of Liverpool PhD Studentship
Development and validation of 3D in vitro dormant myeloma cell models to reduce and replace animal studies Principal Investigator: Dr Michelle Lawson University of Sheffield PhD Studentship
Live monitoring of foreign-body response in animals by diffuse Raman spectroscopy Principal Investigator: Professor Ioan Notingher University of Nottingham Project grant
Development of a New Human Model of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma Progression Principal Investigator: Dr Carlos Lopez-Garcia University of Manchester Project grant
Establishing the novel ex-vivo focal demyelination model of Multiple Sclerosis in other laboratories to reduce and replace live animal use Principal Investigator: Dr Ben Newland Cardiff University Skills and Knowledge Transfer grant
Adoption of a mouse model of veterinary filariasis for preclinical drug testing Principal Investigator: Dr Joseph Turner Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Skills and Knowledge Transfer grant
A novel Drosophila model of chronic inflammatory lung disease to explore airway damage, inflammation and infection in vivo Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Weavers University of Bristol PhD Studentship
Determining the efficacy and safety of cancer chemotherapeutics for cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) using Human Precision Cut Tissue Slices (hPCTS) Principal Investigator: Dr Laura Randle Liverpool John Moores University Skills and Knowledge Transfer grant
Using a novel, high welfare in vivo feeding device for poultry red mite and its integration with other novel tools for this parasite Principal Investigator: Dr Alasdair Nisbet Moredun Research Institute Skills and Knowledge Transfer grant