AFABILITY was awarded the Lush prize for public awareness that was announced at a ceremony that took place in London. The Lush judging panel selected the winners from a shortlist of 66 projects and scientists from 29 countries. In total, there were 18 winning projects and scientists from 11 countries, sharing £330,000 in prize money across 5 different categories that…
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07/02/17 – AFABILITY wins the 2017 Beagle Freedom Prize!
AFABILITY is proud to have the support of the Beagle Freedom Project and to have been awarded the Funding the Future grant. Beagle Freedom Project is calling on the scientific community to "Upgrade Your Research" with innovative, effective, and humane alternatives to animal models and methods. In this way, the Beagle Freedom Project seeks to proactively…
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08/11/16 – AFABILITY alerts the ECVAM stake holder forum about the needless use of animals in antibody production
In a presentation that stimulated much interest and discussion, Dr Alison Gray outlined the work of AFABILITY and the issues that AFABILITY is addressing regarding the use of animals for antibody production, at the ECVAM stakeholder forum, November 8th, 2016
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23/09/16 – AFABILITY joins the ECVAM Stakeholder Forum (ESTAF)
AFABILITY is pleased to announce that its application to join the European ECVAM Stakeholder Forum (ESTAF) has been approved. The ESTAF's roles are: -Advocacy, voicing of stakeholder interests (e.g. economical, societal, sectorial etc.) -Upstream input on relevance and applicability of proposed test methods and testing strategies -Communicating new activities, trends, scientific and technical issues; strategic…
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