2020: Lecture by Pandora Pound for course: Animals in Research: Law, Policy, and Humane Sciences, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, US See details of whole course here and slides for lecture by Pandora Pound here: animals-lec11
26.4.2019: Kathy Archibald speaking via Skype to the Institute of Bioethics at the Pontificia University Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Many thanks to Professor Javier Andrés González Cortés.
See our Pharmaceutical Director, Dr Gerry Kenna, present on the prediction of human hazard using in vitro data at the British Toxicological Society (BTS) Annual Congress, Cambridge UK, 17th April 2019.
Watch the 30 minute presentation here
Dr Jan Turner speaking at the March 8th 2019 London Conference to launch the book:
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change
Dr Gerry Kenna speaking on: “Overcoming obstacles to human-relevant science.” WIST 2nd Congress: Science instead of animals. Cologne, Germany, October 27, 2018
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.
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
By Rebecca Ram I was pleased to be invited to give a presentation on the issues concerning use of animals in research at a recent workshop hosted by Advocates for Animals, the UK’s first legal organisation devoted to animal protection. The theme of the workshop was “Animal experiments; the law, the framework and the alternatives”. […]
Safer Medicines Trust at the 11th World Congress on Alternatives (WC11)Scientific consultant Rebecca Ram presented during a virtual session as part of the ‘YOU-WC11’ mentoring programme. The session theme was ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Expanding the 3Rs’’ and was particularly aimed at early career scientists. The session was further divided to discuss two topics; ‘Dropping an R: Is it Time to Retire Refinement?‘ featuring Charu Chandrasekera of […]
