Program & Speakers

Thursday, November 26^th | Day 1

8.00 am - 9.00 am Registration

9.00 am - 9.30 am Welcome Ceremony

Michael To Vinh (Bonn) – "Updates from the Network 2026"

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9.30 am - 10.50 am Session 1: Refinement 

Kerstin Hagemeister (Bonn) – "Does Tunnel Colour Matter? Exploring Behavioural Preferences of Laboratory Mice"

Birte Ohm (Aachen) – "Development of a model-specific, consensus-based score sheet for postoperative assessment following orthotopic single-lung transplantation in the mouse"

Sabine Chourbaji (Heidelberg) - “Longevity & Senior Mouse residencies: does this make sense?”

Short talk 1 - selected from abstract submission

Short talk 2 - selected from abstract submission

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10.50 am - 11.20 am Coffee Break

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11.25 am - 12.45 pm Session 2: New Thinking in 3Rs 

Talk 4 - tba

Elisabeth Jurack (Bonn) – "Nothing about us without us? Integrating Patient and Public Involvement into 3R research and animal experimentation"

René Geci (Aachen) – "Integration of in vitro and in silico approaches enables prediction of drug-induced liver injury" 

Short talk 3 - selected from abstract submission

Short talk 4 - selected from abstract submission

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1.00 pm - 2.00 pm Lunch Break

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2.00 pm - 3.00 pm Session 3: 3R-research in industry 

Kerstin Kleinschmidt-Doerr (Darmstadt) – tba

Matthias Gossmann (Jülich) - "Accelerating regulatory acceptance of New Approach Methodologies through international cross-site ring trials: Current developments in drug development and food safety"

Dominic Hildebrand (Wuppertal) -  "The Quiet Revolution: Biotechnology’s Long Game in Replacing Animal Use"

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3.00 pm - 3.30 pm Session 4: Talks by sponsors

Tecniplast (Hohenpeißenberg) – tba

Sponsor talk - tba

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3.10 pm - 4.20 pm Poster Session (odd numbers) & Coffee Break

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4.25 pm - 5.40 pm Session 5: Replacement 

Norbert Gerdes (Düsseldorf) – "Optimizing animal and replacement models in cardiovascular and metabolic research"

Diana Klein (Essen) – "Complex spheroids and organoids as an alternative 3D model for analyzing damage to normal tissue"

Petya Berger (Münster) – "Shiga toxin breaks the epithelial barrier and induces inflammation in a human 3D gut-on-a-chip model"

Short talk 5 - selected from abstract submission

Short talk 6 - selected from abstract submission

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5.40 pm - 5.45 pm Wrap-up Day 1

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From 7.30 pm and on 7^th Aachen Animal Welfare Award Ceremony & Get-Together at CT² in Aachen, Germany
 

Friday, November 27^th | Day 2

8.30 am - 9.00 am Registration

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9.00 am - 10.30 am Session 6: Keynote Lecture 

Stephan Zeiter (Davos) – TBA 

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10.30 am - 11.35 am Poster Session (even numbers) & Coffee Break

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11.40 am - 1.00 pm Session 7: Reduction 

Yannick Bruggemann (Bochum) - tba

Martin Mollenhauer (Cologne) - tba

Talk 15 - tba

Short talk 7 - selected from abstract submission

Short talk 8 - selected from abstract submission

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1.00 pm - 1.15 pm Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

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1.30 pm - 3.00 pm 3R-Center Meeting (invitation only)