Lectures and seminars Webinar: The Impact of the Animals’ Lived Experience
The aim of these CPD webinars (Continuing professional development) is to follow the legal requirements for maintenance and demonstration of competence in laboratory animal science, and to facilitate the implementations of the 3R’s in routine animal work.
While details such as how much nesting material we place in a cage, how we pick up a mouse during cage change, or which analgesic we administer may be fleeting and minor to in-vivo staff, these decisions can result in significant and impactful changes in the lived experience of our laboratory rodents. These impacts are not only to the animals’ welfare but also to the research results they produce.
While these refinements were once considered nice to have, but far from necessary, published studies have now established that reducing stress associated with sub-optimal housing, handling, and post-procedural pain management are important steps to improving laboratory rodent quality of life and the quality and success of the biomedical research to which they contribute.
In this lecture we will explore this literature and learn about the relative impact on a variety of research models of both providing and withholding appropriate enrichment, reducing handling stress, and effective analgesics.
Speaker
Jennie Lofgren, DVM, MS, DACLAM, is Global Head of Animal Welfare and Compliance at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Registration
Register here (by Nov 2, 16.00 CEST)
Contact
E-mail: las-edu@km.ki.se