Reducing animal experiments through top-class research
The haematologist Professor Christopher Baum and his colleagues Dr Ute Modlich and Sabine Knoess have been awarded the 2009 Ursula M. Haendel Animal Welfare Prize. The prize was awarded to this research team from the Hannover Medical School (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, MHH) in recognition of their novel testing system for use in the development of gene therapies that significantly reduces the number of animal experiments required. The Ursula M. Haendel Animal Welfare Prize to researchers and scientists who have made an exemplary and sustained effort to improve animal welfare in research. This is the third time that this biennial prize has been awarded, after having been awarded in 2004 and 2006 and this year is accompanied by an award of EUR50,000...