Sentences with phrase «funder of animal research»

The Morris Foundation is the world's largest funder of animal research.

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Only by pulling back the veil of secrecy, informing citizens of the atrocities that their tax money is funding and holding experimenters accountable for abusing animals in the name of science when more reliable, cruelty - free options exist, can we hope to bring scientific research into the modern age.

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Under a 2015 moratorium, the National Institutes of Health does not fund research that transplants human stem cells into early embryos of other animals.

Funding is in the form of 11 million pounds from the Wellcome Trust, a London - based foundation that supports research on animal and human health, and contributions to individual institutions from companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche, AstraZeneca, Sanofi - Aventis, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, and PTC Therapeutics.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

Despite years of attention and funding for flu research, however, health officials are no closer to having an efficient way to flag new animal pathogens that could harm people.

► The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has put funding on hold for experiments that involve «mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop» while it «reconsiders its rules» for this type of research, Gretchen Vogel reported Wednesday.

Nonetheless, there is more to do; all institutions which conduct or fund animal experiments should have a clear statement online, explaining how and why they do this, in order that the public can understand the important role of animals in research.»

The future studies on animals and humans are being supported by the Strategic Health Innovation Partnerships, a unit of the South African Medical Research Council, with funding from the Department of Science and Technology.

In the summer of 1990, Chris, Chuck, and I went to work lining up the topics: professional standards, lab safety, animal and human research, research funding, and scientific careers.

The analysis by Kearns and her colleagues of the industry's own documents, in contrast, suggests that the industry knew of animal research suggesting this link and halted funding to protect its commercial interests half a century ago.

This is having a major effect on the allocation of research funding, the use of animal testing and the exposure of patients to non-active substances.

Laura Nelson, assistant professor in the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences (SCS) and principal investigator in the project, has been awarded a 2 - year grant to fund research on the causes of Gastric dilatation - volvulus (GDV) in dogs.

As Sankaran Thayumanavan, a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, explains, academics are often only interested in — or only funded for — solving basic research questions, while corporations like to see that a drug or device works in animals before stepping in.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

This research was funded primarily by a variety of grants from the Morris Animal Foundation, University of Minnesota, Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, and a PharmacoNeuroImmunology Fellowship through the National Institutes of Health.

Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.

«These surprising observations show us how a deep - sea animal reproduces,» says Barbara Ransom, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

A Sulawesi hornbill is just one of 100,000 myriad animals that Alfred Russell Wallace collected to fund his research into the origin of species

The IOM committee left open the possibility that chimpanzees may be a necessary animal model to address future emerging or reemerging diseases, which raised the question of whether NIH will readdress its 17 - year - old ban on funding the breeding of chimpanzees for research.

In response, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of theResearch Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of theResearch Council (MRC), the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of theResearch (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of theresearch with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of their work.

Researchers at the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) in Nottingham, have just finished the first stage of development, which draws on research showing that human skin cells produce chemicals called cytokines when exposed to chemicals that are irritants.

Says Theo Colborn of the World Wildlife Fund: the work «demonstrates the need to do research on the safety of chemicals in the field where the animals live and at the levels to which they are exposed.»

A team at the OU's Integrated Waste Systems (IWS) research group is working on an ambitious partnership worth around # 250,000 with a UK SME, and funded by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to develop a new type of biodegradable single - use plastic carrier bags that is recyclable, biodegradable and will have no harmful effects on plants or animals.

And the U.S. military's research arm announced it will fund efforts by several high - profile genetics labs to develop ways to reverse or limit the spread of an introduced gene if it should have unintended consequences on animals or an ecosystem.

Examples of funding areas include but are not limited to molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function; genetic and epigenetic research; animal models created by genetically altering neural circuits; and testing of new chemical entities that might be used in animal models as exploratory treatments.

Committee Work and Service: Professional: Faculty member of the CSHL Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next - generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education; Diversity committees for the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and American Society of Andrology; Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (vice-president and co-chair student research funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue ReResearch Society (vice-president and co-chair student research funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue Reresearch funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue ResearchResearch).

Since most of the research work still focuses on early basic science work and studies in animals, the funding has mainly created jobs tied to laboratory construction and positions for new scientists, assistants and lab technicians, the study said.

And in the meantime, the free availability of the anticipated glucosepane - detecting antibodies generated by the research that SENS Research Foundation funded at Yale will enable the identification of more suitable animal models for the demonstration of a hard health research that SENS Research Foundation funded at Yale will enable the identification of more suitable animal models for the demonstration of a hard health Research Foundation funded at Yale will enable the identification of more suitable animal models for the demonstration of a hard health outcome.

Oisín Biotechnology — a startup with initial funding from SENS Research Foundation, the Methuselah Foundation, and others — is close behind them, having developed a form of gene therapy that — in animals at least — also destroys these cells, using an approach that is less inherently likely to destroy healthy cells along with senescent ones.

The agency will continue its ban on funding research that would include breeding of animals that could make human eggs or sperm.

That effort has been helped by extra funding from the Australian government (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) to look at pheromones and spawning - site choice in toads; from the Invasive Animals Co-Operative Research Centre to explore effects of parasites on toads in Queensland; and from the Western Australians Department of Environment & Conservation, to understand frog and toad parasites at the toad invasion front.

The NIH has for years supported research in which human cells are transplanted into animal models, and it continues to fund human / nonhuman chimera research that lies outside the scope of research singled out in its notice of moratorium.»

He is President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Fellow of the International Ornithological Union and has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Foundation, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Wiener - Anspach foundation amongst other awards; he is funded by the Australian Research Council.

I am currently working on a variety of NIH - funded projects, including areas such as bioinformatics research portals, visualization for review of chart records, and tools for aiding the discovery of animal models of human diseases.

Berman faculty have led or served on committees of the National Academy of medicine related to human and to animal research and led work for the National Cancer Institute creating model national guidance on informed consent; Berman faculty have served on multiple Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for federally and privately funded trials including the recent NIH sponsored ebola trials.

Her previous work showed a concerning connection between carrageenan and gastrointestinal cancer in lab animals, and she's involved with ongoing research funded through the National Institutes of Health that is investigating carrageenan's effect on ulcerative colitis and other diseases like diabetes.

Chrissy, who shares a room with her older sister, Brianna, 17, still receives cards and stuffed animals from well - wishers two years after she made international headlines.This month, she'll participate in a few community events to raise awareness about the importance of funding breast cancer research, says her mom, and she plans to speak at a fundraiser to help children with cancer and other serious afflictions.

Research funded by the Life Extension Foundation showed that a combination of low - dose (20 mg) resveratrol plus grapeseed extract mimicked many of the favorable gene expression changes seen in calorie - restricted animals.

Soon after their success in resurrecting someone, which is only known to those five, the lab is raided by a pharmaceutical company that, according to the terms of the grant that was funding Frank and Zoe's research, owns all intellectual property in the event the terms of the grant are broken, which happened once they started testing on animals.

What's more, the Pet Care Trust is on the verge of releasing the final results of a study that it funded along with the Human Animal Bond Research Institute and American Humane Association, which will likely reveal the direct benefits of classroom pets on students» socialization and academic performance.

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Socially responsible pet companies go above and beyond by doing good things for pets in need, whether they offer support to animals in shelters, host adoption events, fund research, help pet owners, or otherwise enhance, enrich or improve the lives of pets in need.

He also led the charge to form the Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI), an organization that gathers and funds the most extensive research on the benefits of pet ownership on human health, and launched Pets Add Life (PAL), a national social media campaign that serves to promote and grow responsible pet owResearch Initiative (HABRI), an organization that gathers and funds the most extensive research on the benefits of pet ownership on human health, and launched Pets Add Life (PAL), a national social media campaign that serves to promote and grow responsible pet owresearch on the benefits of pet ownership on human health, and launched Pets Add Life (PAL), a national social media campaign that serves to promote and grow responsible pet ownership.

As Director of the Criminal Justice Program for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Lora Dunn assists prosecutors and law enforcement throughout the country on animal cruelty cases — from research and written support on motions, pleadings, and briefs to trainings and presentaAnimal Legal Defense Fund, Lora Dunn assists prosecutors and law enforcement throughout the country on animal cruelty cases — from research and written support on motions, pleadings, and briefs to trainings and presentaanimal cruelty cases — from research and written support on motions, pleadings, and briefs to trainings and presentations.

We offered funding for one foundational research project aimed at testing a novel strategy for persuading people to reduce their consumption of animal products, based on principles of self - persuasion.

Finally, we offered funding for one methodological research project exploring the feasibility of using experience sampling for animal advocacy research.

A lot of the evidence for the success of particular approaches is not as strong as we would like, and we think that further research is one good activity to fund.92 But it is also likely that at least some current approaches, and possibly nearly all of them, are among the best ways we can now use significant amounts of resources to help animals.