Animal research has long been a controversial issue: the debate is emotive and highly divisive, yet it has done little to capture the public imagination in the way that other social justice movements, such as Climate Change and #MeToo, have managed to achieve.
PhD student Hayley is part of the research team at Queen’s University Belfast looking at chronic pain using a model made from dental pulp.
Our researchers at Exeter University have published their revolutionary new study into diabetes.
PhD student Kerri is working hard to find better ways to prevent breast cancer thanks to your generous donations. We caught up with her during our visit to Aberdeen to see how she’s getting on.
With your support, Dr Nicola Jeffery was awarded her PhD in December by studying diabetes using animal free techniques. We caught up with her over a cup of coffee to see how she is settling in to her new research project.
East of England MEP, Alex Mayer, is backing our bid to raise £50,000 to help beat brain tumours without animal suffering.
With your help, we’re funding Professor Geoff Pilkington’s ground-breaking brain tumour research at the University of Portsmouth. Brain tumours are particularly difficult to treat as the brain is protected by the blood-brain barrier which importantly prevents toxins from getting into the brain.
Professor Pilkington’s all-human model – the first of its kind – allows his team to investigate how to pass drugs through this barrier to successfully treat brain tumours.
Alex Mayer MEP said, “I’m proud to support Animal Free Research UK – because it really is win-win. Portsmouth University’s research into brain tumours is not only helping save animals from the horror of experiments, it’s also giving a real lifeline of hope to families watching their loved ones suffer the debilitating effects of brain disease.”
Thanks to the generous support of compassionate people like you, we’ve already raised over £100,000 to fund this research. But we urgently need to raise a further £50,000 so that Professor Pilkington can continue his pioneering research.
Just £25 could buy a fluorescent dye kit to track drug delivery across the team’s unique all-human blood-brain barrier model – helping to find more effective treatments for children and adults with brain tumours and to save countless animals’ lives.
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