Form the organizers:
The next French 3R Day will be held online on Thursday, July 2, 2026. Free and open to all with mandatory registration, this scientific meeting aims to promote the principle of the 3Rs – Replace, Reduce, Refine – and to promote the major advances made in France in the field of alternative methods and animal welfare.
PROGRAM
2 p.m. Opening + Highlights of the FC3R Athanassia SOTIROPOULOS (Director of the FC3R
, Maisons-Alfort)
2:20 pm The 2025 3R Awards - Presented by the FC3R Scientific Council
- Culture of Care Prize: "Impacts of rodent handling techniques on their well-being and reproductive parameters"
Candice HACKNEY (UAR hTAG, Université Grenoble Alpes) - Research Prize: "Development of a biobank of patient-derived organoids for the study and treatment of pediatric brain cancers"
Clémence DELIGNE (Cancer Research Center of Lyon)
3 pm Replacement - Winner of the FC3R
call for projects "Development of complex human brain organoids to model glioblastoma studies"
Laurent GAUTHIER (Laboratory of RadioPathology (LRP), Fontenay-aux-Roses)
15:20 Break
15:30 Relative replacement - Winner of the FC3R
call for projects "Screening of antinociceptive and analgesic molecules in the planar model"
Hervé CADIOU (Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, Strasbourg)
3:50 pm Reduction - Winner of the FC3R
call for projects "Automatic extraction of non-clinical and clinical data to reduce the use of animals in research and experimentation"
Dominique DOUGUET (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC), Valbonne)
16:10 Refinement - Winner of the FC3R
call for projects "Organising the sharing and reuse of rodent acoustic recordings to understand their vocal communication system"
Elodie EY (IGBMC, Strasbourg)
4:30 p.m. Opal Short Note Challenge
16:45 French 3R Initiatives
5 p.m. Closing
Registration will be open in June