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How IMI projects are helping to ‘replace, reduce and refine’ the use of animals in research
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A new way of studying an old question – which medicines can be taken safely while breastfeeding?
Studies of medicines safety and breastfeeding often involve animals. Now IMI’s CONCEPTION project has a plan that could deliver better results while also using fewer animals.
Safe, potent and consistent vaccine batches – no routine animal testing required
VAC2VAC is working on new methods of testing batches of vaccines that don’t involve animal models.
PRISM 2 to build on PRISM’s ground-breaking social withdrawal work
IMI’s PRISM project shed new light on social withdrawal, a common early symptom of many neurological disorders. Now PRISM 2 is set to build on its results.
114th Edition – July 2021
Table of contents:
- Sophisticated computing and human cell cultures are helping minimise animal use in drug development – IMI's Pierre Meulien
- New project HIPPOCRATES sets sights on psoriatic arthritis
- PRISM 2 to build on PRISM’s ground-breaking social withdrawal work
- Now online – summary reports of our impact series events
- News from the projects
Inno4Vac
Innovations to accelerate vaccine development and manufacture
Analysis suggests that as COVID spread, emergency dept. visits dropped
A team that included researchers from BigData@Heart found that fewer hospital visits for urgent heart problems may have led to a spike in mortality
Study: face masks cannot replace swabs for testing COVID19 viral load
A team that included researchers from the DRAGON project found that viral load is lower on face mask filters than on nasopharyngeal swabs.
New project HIPPOCRATES sets sights on psoriatic arthritis
By speeding up diagnosis and paving the way for personalised treatments, HIPPOCRATES hopes to improve the quality of life of people living with psoriatic arthritis.
RealHOPE
Real world handling of protein drugs - exploration, evaluation and education