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Three 3R Projects have received financial support

13-02-2020

The Danish 3R-Center have supported three new 3R Projects.

Three 3R Projects have received financial support

The three projects are:

  • Establishment of an in vitro model to investigate extracellular matrix and vascular mechanical interactions in human arterial disease
  • Introduction of new human ex vivo model systems to study tumorigenesis in kidney cancer
  • Fighting irreproducibility in preclinical medicine using a meta-analytical approach for detecting flaws in behavior-based testing
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