Program & Speakers

Thursday, December 7^th | Day 1

8.00 am - 9.00 am Registration

9.00 am - 9.30 am Welcome Ceremony

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9.30 am - 11.15 am Session 1: Presentations of the eight network members

Aachen, Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Duesseldorf, Essen, Cologne, Muenster

11.15 am - 11.30 am Coffee Break

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11.30 am - 1.00 pm Session 2: Reduction

Ulrich Flögel (Duesseldorf): 3R by Non-invasive Magnetic Resonance Techniques

Stephan Leisengang (Giessen): Pain research in a petri dish? - Chances and limitations of cell culture models in pain research

Lydia Wachsmuth (Muenster): Living up to the 3Rs – Non-invasive imaging in experimental animal research

1.00 pm - 2.00 pm Lunch Break

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2.00 pm - 3.30 pm Session 3: New thinking in 3R's

Björn Gerlach (Mannheim): On the way to 3Rs with the EQIPD Quality System

Sabine Bischoff (Jena): CIRS-LAS – Redefining animal welfare: the impact of critical incident reflection

Bernhard Schremer (Cologne): 3R in kidney research

3.30 pm - 4.30 pm Poster Session & Coffee Break

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4.30 pm - 6.00 pm Session 4: Refinement

Stephanie Krämer (Giessen): Refinement research - State of Affairs?!

Lisa Ernst (Aachen): Components for Establishing Refinement Strategies in Large Animal Models: A practical example

Marta Stei (Bonn): Refinement and Validity of a Cardiological Surgical Mouse Model

7.30 pm - 10.00 pm Social Evening and Award ceremony at "Das Liebig"
in Aachen

Friday, December 8^th | Day 2

8.30 am - 9.00 am Registration

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9.00 am - 10.30 am Session 5: Keynote Lecture

David Morten (Birmingham, GB):

10.30 am - 11.30 am Coffee Break

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11.30 am - 1.00 pm Session 6: Replacement

Johannes Wurm (Bielefeld): Human Microglia Models: An Alternative to Animal Testing?

Jochen Salber (Bochum): Do engineered human tissue constructs for in vitro biocompatibility analysis achieve sufficient complexity to replace animal testing? – Painful and instructive lessons from HyMedPoly and EVPRO

Björn Scheffler (Essen): Adding two P’s to the three R’s – How about prospective prevention in animal research?

1.00 pm - 1.15 pm Wrap-up and Closing Remarks