Miniature Lung Grown by Scientists to Test Cancer Drugs
15 minute presentation by Dr Bob Coleman at Horizons in Human Cells conference, Edinburgh, May 2014: “Humanising Drug Safety Testing”
4 minute clip from BBC “Bang Goes the Theory” on growing living human brain cells into 3D ‘mini-brains’ to study Alzheimer’s Disease
10 minute film from HSI, featuring biomedical researchers from Imperial College, London, The Blizard Institute and Aston University, explaining why replacing animals in cancer, gastrointestinal, respiratory and neurological research will reap significant rewards for human health.
24 minute presentation by Dr Bob Coleman at American College of Toxicology annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 4 November 2013:
Ensuring safety and efficacy in new medicines – humanising the process
Slide presentation by Dr Bob Coleman at Linz University, Austria, 17th September 2013: “Humanising Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century”.
16 minute talk by Dr Meg Lewis of Kirkstall Ltd, entitled: “Animal-Free Future of Drug Discovery” – read the concluding words here.
An amazing MUST-SEE short (4 minute) film from Harvard University about their ‘organs-on-a-chip” from Technology Review, July/August 2012: www.technologyreview.com/demo/427992/building-an-organ-on-a-chip/
A 25 minute interview with Safer Medicines’ director, Kathy Archibald, on the “Freedom of Species” (http://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies) radio show from Melbourne, Australia, October 2011
15,000 signature petition delivered to Number 10 Downing Street. View the presentation here.
Sky News coverage of our open letter to David Cameron and Andrew Lansley
An interview with Safer Medicines Campaign director, Kathy Archibald on the Wild Time radio show 9th May 2011
The Politics Show 26th September 2010, with kind permission of the BBC.
On the Edge, 29th April 2010: interview available to view here by kind permission of Edge Media TV.
BBC Radio 4 interviews Dr Bob Coleman and Professor Chris Foster for You and Yours (21/10/2009)
Safer Medicines Campaign featured on BBC1 Inside Out programme, February 2009
Dr Margaret Clotworthy is interviewed during a feature on the increase in animal experimentation in the UK. Her contribution starts half way through the 9 minute clip available here.
Safer Medicines showcases state-of-the-art approaches to ensuring that drugs in the future will be safer than they have been in the past. World leading scientists from industry and academia present their vision for the future of drug development – with a focus on human biology.
Iain Simpson, Press Officer, Pro-Test Campaign
Dr. Margaret Clotworthy, Safer Medicines Trust
Professor John Stein, Oxford University
Kathy Archibald, Safer Medicines Trust
Thanks to Aled Fisher, Environment and Ethics Officer, LSE Students’ Union, for organising and chairing the debate.
Listen to interview (2005)
Interview with Dr Jarrod Bailey. Since this interview was recorded, the latest estimates for the number of adverse reactions to Vioxx worldwide are 320,000 heart attacks and strokes, up to 140,000 of them fatal. – With kind permission of Passion for the Planet Radio: www.passionfortheplanet.com
Listen to interview (2005)
Interview with Dr Jarrod Bailey, scientific director of Europeans for Medical Progress – With kind permission of Passion for the Planet Radio: www.passionfortheplanet.com