In the webinar "German animal welfare, model refinement and advocacy webinar: technology and science" on 02.06.2022 from 02:00 - 05:00 pm, moderated by York Winter (Charité University, Berlin), high-level researchers will present their ideas on how to improve the validity of biomedical studies while adhering to the 3Rs principles.
More information, as well as the registration form for the event can be found here.
- 02:00 - 03:00 pm
- York Winter (Chair for Cognitive Neurobiology, Humboldt University, Berlin) on "Home Cage Monitoring and Experimentation"
- Ulrich Dinargl (Director of the QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Charité University, Berlin) on "From 3R to 6R: Improving the quality and value of animal experiments in biomedicine"
- Thomas Thum (Director of the Institute for Molecular and Translational Therapy Strategies, MHH) on "Alternative strategies in cardiac preclinical research"
- 03:00 - 04:00 pm
- Anna Olson (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto) on "Perinatal perils: understanding pup mortality in laboratory mouse breeding"
- Alexander Bartelt (Institute of Cardiovascular Prevention, LMU Munich) on "Metabolism: fat diets and cool experiments"
- Sabine M. Hölter (Group Leader at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich) on "Strategies to reduce translational gaps"
- 04:00 - 05:00 pm
- Stefano Gaburro (Global Scientific Director, Digilab Solutions, Tecniplast S.P.A.) on "Future of home cage monitoring: opportunities and caveats"
- Jean Laurens (Group Leader at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Frankfurt) on "Animal Welfare in Non-Human Primates: for a Neuroscience of Natural Behavior"
- Roman Stilling (Editor at Tierversuche Verstehen) on "Communication about animals in research - Why no communication is not an option"