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Symposium 2016

Program September 13th 2016

Symposium 2016
Time	Title/abstract	Speaker	Presentation
09.00-10.00	Registration and breakfast
10.00-10.10	Welcome by moderator	Axel Kornerup Hansen (The Danish 3R-Center)
10.10-10.55	Animals - are they almost people?	Lone Frank	Not available
10.55-11.05	The Danish 3R-Center – successes so far	Christine Nellemann (The Danish 3R-Center)	Presentation
11.05-11.20	Break
11.20-11.45	Laboratory animals: perspectives from an animal welfare organization	Kirsten Rosenmaj Jacobsen (The Danish Animal Welfare Society)	Presentation
11.45-12.00	Is it possible to reduce group size or increase power by using mice with high responding microbiota in studies of dermatitis?	Line Sidsel Fisker Zachariassen (University of Copenhagen)	Not available
12.00-13.00	Lunch
13.00-13.40	Successes, current activities and future plans of the German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R)	Barbara Grune (BfR)	Not available
13.40-13.55	Towards better brain cancer treatment with novel in vitro models and fewer animal experiments	Bjarne Winther Kristensen (University of Southern Denmark)	Presentation
13.55-14.40	Recent Highlights from EURL ECVAM	Susanne Belz (EURL-ECVAM)	Not available
14.40-15.00	Break
15.00-15.15	Refinement of animal models of pain: Establishment of strategies to alleviate avoidable pain in rat models for pain and inflammation	Klas Abelson (University of Copenhagen)	Presentation
15.15-16.00	EPAA progress and successes in 3Rs for biologicals	Catrina Stirling (European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing)	Presentation
16.00-18.00	Poster session with wine, cheese and networking

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Program September 14th 2016

Symposium 2016
Time	Title/abstract	Speaker	Presentation
08.30-09.00	Breakfast
09.00-09.30	The OECD framework for Adverse Outcome Pathways Development and Application	Magda Sachana (OECD)	Presentation
09.30-09.50	The Danish 3R Survey - Knowledge, attitudes and experiences with the 3Rs among researchers involved in animal experiments in Denmark	Jesper Lassen (University of Copenhagen)	Presentation
09.50-10.15	CRACK IT Solutions: successes from the NC3Rs technology partnering hub	Joanna Edwards (NC3R)	Presentation
10.15-10.45	Break
10.45-10.55	Introducing the 3R prize winner	Lisbeth E. Knudsen (The Danish 3R-Center)
10.55-11.05	3R – prize winner
11.05-11.50	Preparing dogs for study life: improving welfare, efficiency and data output	Laura Hall (University of Sterling, NC3R Prize Winner)	Not available
11.50-12.35	The RSPCA and the 3Rs: the scientific animal welfare organisation as a catalyst for change	Elliot Lilley (RSPCA)	Presentation
12.35-12.50	Pathological and immunological consequences of different blood samplings procedures in mice	Dorte Bratbo Sørensen (University of Copenhagen)	Presentation
12.50-13.00	Concluding remarks	Axel Kornerup Hansen
13.00-15.00	Lunch and networking

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Laura Hall (University of Sterling, NC3R Prize Winner) study life: improving welfare, efficiency and data output (photo: Foto: Sønderby & Grathwohl Fotografi).

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Eva Bay Wedebye talked about predicting chemicals’ harmful effects without animal testing. She and her colleague Nikolai Georgiev Nikolov was rewarded with the Danish 3R-prize 2016 (photo: Sønderby & Grathwohl Fotografi)

Joanna Edwards from NC3Rs talked about CRACK IT Solutions: successes from the NC3Rs technology partnering hub (photo: Sønderby & Grathwohl Fotografi)

The OECD framework for Adverse Outcome Pathways Development and Application was presented by Magda Sachana (photo: Sønderby & Grathwohl Fotografi).

Lunch (photo: Sønderby & Grathwohl Fotografi).

Lunch (photo: Sønderby & Grathwohl Fotografi).