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Chancellor Merkel backs new German research centre

Bob Tolliday

Mar 4, 2019
1 min

Chancellor Merkel backs new German research centre

The Max Delbrück Center (MDC), an EARA member, welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she opened its new research building in Berlin. The building hosts the Berlin Institute for Molecular Systems Biology (BIMSB), as a second MDC campus, committed to research excellence and openness. It is anticipated that it will host 250 researchers and 16 labs in the near future (see video of the opening). Setting the scene for different scientific disciplines – biotechnology, computat

The first ten years of the UK’s Understanding Animal Research

Bob Tolliday

Feb 28, 2019
3 min

The first ten years of the UK’s Understanding Animal Research

By UAR Chief Executive Wendy Jarrett Understanding Animal Research (UAR) reached its tenth birthday on 1 January 2019 and we have been engaging and informing people about how and why animals are used in research for a decade. So we thought that it would be a good time to have a look back at some of the highlights of the past decade and remind ourselves of how UAR came about and what it has achieved so far. UAR has inherited the DNA of two parent UK organisations – the Researc

Primate poposal by Netherlands government ‘will severely limit progress on biomedical research’.

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
2 min

Primate poposal by Netherlands government ‘will severely limit progress on biomedical research’.

EARA has responded to a call by the Dutch Science Minister for the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC), in the Netherlands, an EARA member, to draw up a proposal, by the beginning of next year, to reduce the number of experiments with no-human primates (NHP) by up to 40%. Ahead of a debate, which took place in the Netherlands House of Representatives earlier this month, EARA wrote to Ingrid van Engelshoven, Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Carola Schouten,

EARA looks ahead with strategic objectives for next five years

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
2 min

EARA looks ahead with strategic objectives for next five years

EARA has set out the association’s vision and mission and its strategic objectives up until to 2023, following its General Assembly in Munich, Germany. The Strategic Review looks at the background to EARA’s founding in 2014 and its achievements. The association now has more than 70 member organisations from private and public research as well as professional bodies across 15 countries in Europe. EARA was founded following recognition of the need to develop, establish and impl

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
1 min

EARA Brexit briefing published

EARA Brexit Taskforce Briefing on the potential implications for animal science in the UK and EU stemming from Brexit EARA has brought together a group of organisations under a Brexit Taskforce. The Taskforce is comprised of the following organisations – EARA, ABPI, AnimalHealth Europe, Charles River Laboratories, Covance, Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs, Envigo, GSK, Marshall BIoResources, National Office of Animal Health, Understanding Animal Research and the Wellcome Sanger I

Max Delbrück Center stands in support of important research study

Bob Tolliday

Nov 15, 2018
2 min

Max Delbrück Center stands in support of important research study

A world-renowned German biomedical research institution has responded strongly to criticism from an activist group that has targeted one of its researchers. Activist group Ärzte gegen Tierversuche (Doctors Against Animal Experiments) protested about the research of Prof. Gary Lewin and his team, at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, describing it as ‘absurd’. MDC has now hit back with Martin Lohse, CEO of MDC, explaining that while criticism is part

Brain Prize winner emphasises essential need for animal research into Alzheimer’s

Bob Tolliday

Nov 15, 2018
2 min

Brain Prize winner emphasises essential need for animal research into Alzheimer’s

Basic researchers into Alzheimer disease awarded major scientific prize Today it was announced that the 2018 Brain Prize will be awarded to Bart De Strooper (VIB, KU Leuven and University College London), Michel Goedert (University of Cambridge), Christian Haass (DZNE, Ludwig-Maximilians-University) and John Hardy (UCL) for their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease. The four researchers will share the 1 million EUR prize awarded b