Laboratory Animal Science Association (LASA)

If you would like to keep up with the latest LASA news, you can now find us on any of the below: 🌐Website: lasa.co.uk 📷Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/lasa-u… 💼LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/labora…

📅 Save the date! The LASA Large Animal Rsearch Network (LARN) annual meeting will be held 24 - 25 September 🐑 🐄 🐖 Did you know that LARN is one of the LASA Sections? Find out more on the LASA website: lasa.co.uk/sections #LargeAnimals #AnimalScience #Research #3Rs

Animals also benefit from biomedical research, as medical research carried out on animals leads directly to veterinary treatments. Vaccines now exist for fatal diseases such as feline leukaemia and canine distemper. Advances in veterinary medicine have helped to reduce the loss of farm and herd animals to sickness and disease, saving livelihoods all over the world. Vaccines and veterinary medicines are also used in conservation projects, helping protect endangered species by reducing the risk of disease. Animal testing and animal experiments are also crucial for animal health and the progress veterinary discoveries. There have been great advancements in non-animal technologies, such as a lab-grown dog skin, which has fully replaced the need to test certain veterinary treatments on animals in order to ensure the safety of these treatments to be used on animals en masse. These tests were crucial to understanding conditions of the skin, like dermatitis, for instance, and how to treat them. New replacement technologies will continue to phase in and reduce the number of animals in research. On our website, you can find a long list of research involving animals that has created countless treatments for animals of all species: animalresearch.info/en/medical-adv…

SAVE THE DATE 📅 The LASA Annual Conference is back for 2025! Join us from Monday 17 - Wednesday 19 November in the West Midlands for another exciting conference. Details to follow. #AnimalScience #3Rs

LASA is offering two bursaries to support attendance at FELASA 2025 Congress, taking place in Athens on 2-5 June! Interested? Find the form on our website and submit completed forms to info@lasa.co.uk by 21 February: lasa.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

@BristolUni Robin Lovell-Badge from @TheCrick will now deliver the Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture

Congratulations also to Emma Robinson of @BristolUni who is this year’s Professor Sir Colin Blakemore award winner 🏆

Excited to be celebrating the @animalresearch Openness Awards this evening🥇 #Openness #PublicEngagement #AnimalScience

Congratulations to Cat on winning a prize for best poster! #LASA2024

Our preclinical team have enjoyed attending the @LASA_UK Annual Conference this week to share updates and reconnect with peers. Here's Cat Beatty's poster presentation, joined by Amy Warner. #LASA2024 Find out more about our in vivo work: rxcelerate.com/preclinical/

That’s a wrap! #LASA2024 has drawn to a close. Thank you to all of our delegates, presenters, and trade sponsors who joined us over the last 3 days 👏

For our final keynote talk of #LASA2024 we have Karen Blyth of @CR_UK @CRUK_SI talking to us about translational cancer research and the impact of animal studies

Will Reynolds and Kate Chandler are providing an ASRU/ASPU update covering a number of topics 🍫 #LASA2024

The NC3Rs has posters at two conferences this week! If you’re @primrconnect in Seattle you can find Stephen’s poster on the ARRIVE study plan and if you’re @LASA_UK’s annual conference head to our poster on our resources designed to improve animal welfare in animal facilities.

Finally Brian Burlinson is sharing his wealth of experience in how drug development has changed over the years and what it might look like into the future #LASA2024

Next is Sarah Collison and Carol Smee who have been working on creating ethical frameworks for sourcing animal materials #LASA2024

We are starting our final day of #LASA2024 with Sara Wells, our new president from @TheCrick and @MRCHarwell discussing the changing landscape of animal science

@QUBelfast Next, our three ETES speakers take part in a Q&A session to discuss sentience #LASA2024

Next we have Bob Elwood from @QUBelfast sharing his work on our understanding of pain in decapods #LASA2024

In our Education, Training and Ethics section today we are discussing the concept of “sentience”, with Marian Stamp Dawkins from @UniofOxford up first #LASA2024