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European Partnership For Alternative Approches To Animal Testing (EPAA): A Decade Of Support To The 3RS

A.I.S.E., a founding member of the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to animal testing (EPAA) was pleased to celebrate the partnerships’ 10th anniversary and its hard work and commitment towards alternatives to animal testing and the 3Rs principles. 

The conference took place on 1st December 2015, at 13:30-18:30, in the European Parliament, Brussels, and was hosted by Giovanni La Via MEP, ENVI Committee Chair, representatives of the European Parliament, European Council Presidency, regulators and civil society. They called for a continued commitment from the European Commission and industry to support alternative approaches to animal testing. 

Please follow the link to the EPAA website to view all the presentations and the photo gallery from the EPAA Annual Conference 2015. At the EPAA conference, the 3Rs Laboratory Technician Award was bestowed on Ms Alexandra Lorenz from TissUse GmbH for her work entitled “A multi-organ chip for co-culture of organ equivalents for long-term substance testing”.

Further proceedings including an interview with Ms Alexandra Lorenz, and the Annual Conference Summary Report will be uploaded soon.

If you have any questions regarding the EPAA or would like information on how to become a member, please send a message to grow-epaa@ec.europa.eu.

The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) supports students doing outstanding work in alternative approaches to attend a high-profile scientific event. To this end, they have recently published two calls for submission. One is for the 3Rs Student Grants and the other one is for the Refinement Prize 2019.