PCRM starts Animal-Free Workshop Series for Early-Career Researchers

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), and the Animal Protection Commissioner of Berlin are launching a new workshop series focused on animal-free new approach methods (NAMs) in research and testing. The Animal-Free Workshop Series for Early-Career Researchers consists of free, online workshops that will provide a forum for early career researchers to learn about innovative nonanimal methods and gain practical career development skills. 

Registration is now open for Workshop No. 1: Understanding Translatability and Crafting Competitive Grant Applications on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 10 am ET/4 pm CET via Zoom.

The workshop will feature:

• Dr. Jarrod Bailey, Director of Medical Research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who will explain how human-focused research provides greater clinical benefits, due to greater biological similarity and specificity of human-based methods
• Dr. Angela Hvitved, Program Director at the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation, who will provide an overview of funding opportunities for nonanimal research methods and practical tips for crafting a strong proposal that is tailored to the target funding opportunity.

Find out more and register here! And please share with the early-career researchers in your networks.