The clarity of the pledges, the organisations named responsible for their delivery, and expected timescales, all allow us to hold them to account.
It's also important to remember how far we've come. 🧪🐭
#Replacement #3Rs #AnimalResearch

But in many areas it's not that simple. 🤓
There are ambitious goals that require complex cultural, behavioural, and structural changes with the way we do #science within this strategy, not just the easy wins.

Many areas of regulatory testing have already been replaced, many more are underway and so some may see this as unambitious and easily achieved.

The focus is largely on replacing animal procedures in regulatory testing, like safety testing new drugs and chemicals, which are actually only a small % of the total carried out each year.

- Training for #funders and their review panels to ensure that #replacement opportunities are consistently taken in their funding decisions.

- Ensure Journal Editors welcome well designed and reported alternative methods without requiring comparison with an animal ‘model’.
#3Rs #AnimalResearch

Other highlights include areas that we have long been calling for 📢:

- Improving advice on alternatives for the community

- Dedicated training for PhD students in alternative methods

We're particularly pleased to see significant funding being devoted to the science and technology, including a preclinical translational models hub and a new UK Centre for the development and validation of alternatives.
www.gov.uk/government/p...

It outlines clear areas of work both within govt across different depts, and through organisations like @nc3rs.bsky.social and via @ukri.org 's Medical Research Council. It also mentions how this will be driven, achieved, and the progress towards each goal measured.

It's not too late to get your brief project outline submitted to be in with a chance to win our #InnovationGrant #funding!

Get your ideas together for proof-of-principle or pilot studies and fill out your preliminary application here:

replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

This is just the first stage of the application process.
Those that fit our mission and purpose, are novel and innovative, and advance human relevant science and replacing animal use, will be invited to submit a more detailed application.

#Replacement #3Rs #SmallGrants #Grants #Research

Exploring opportunities to replace animal use requires a different kind of thinking. Please get in touch if you need help in the replacement of animals in your field or Institution: [email protected]
#Research 🧪

Being able to find and assess info to help replace #AnimalResearch is essential for for good #science and legal and ethical reasons too.
#3Rs #Research

Other guidance directs users to in vivo literature, encouraging systematic reviews to help find information on animal #replacement approaches.
SRs are helpful in other contexts but not for exploring ways of avoiding animal use that might need tech to be adopted and adapted from elsewhere.

You can also download a detailed guide for advice on terminology, appropriate strategies, and available resources for efficient online searches.

We were so pleased to be invited to help Ireland's research community better implement the 'R' of #Replacement! If you're a researcher, member of a review panel, #Ethics committee, #AWERB or #AWB and want some support or training in searching for alternatives to #AnimalResearch, please get in touch!