[spsp-members] Online Workshop: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond Animal Experimentation in Research and Safety Testing

[Lohse, S. (Simon) via spsp-members]

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Upcoming Online Workshop, 19–20 March 2026

Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond Animal Experimentation in Research and Safety Testing: What‘s New? What‘s Next?
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Animal use in science and safety testing persists at high levels – despite decades of advocacy and innovation in alternatives. Apart from technical challenges, this also raises urgent philosophical, ethical, legal, and social-scientific issues. This two-day online workshop on the afternoons of 19-20 March 2026 (CET +1) focuses on new perspectives that can help to understand the intersection of scientific and human obstacles that slow down transition.

Join the discussion to broaden your perspective on the animal experimentation transition and help to explore pathways to a future of innovative, responsible science. Register by 17 March 2026: http://tinyurl.com/nam-workshop

Please find the programme below and the workshop poster at this link: https://tinyurl.com/NAM2026POSTER

Organisers: Love Hansell (Radboud University Nijmegen), Simon Lohse (Radboud University Nijmegen) & Nico Müller (University of Basel)


-- Workshop Programme --

*Day I (19/03): Regulatory and political perspectives*

13:30 Introduction

13:35 Love Hansell, Radboud University Nijmegen
Embracing uncertainty for new regulatory futures

14:15 Katerina Stoykova, University of Zurich
From animal testing to NAMs: How EU legislative design helps – or hinders – the transition

15:00 Break

15:15 Paul Locke, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Transitioning from animal-based research to New Approach Methods at federal agencies in the United States: Window dressing or fundamental change?

16:00 Anne Van Veen, Utrecht University
The transition to animal free safety testing: time to bring in the nonhuman animals!


*Day II (20/03): Meta-scientific perspectives*

13:30 Pandora Pound, Safer Medicines Trust
Moving beyond animal experimentation in scientific research: Reflections on the last 20 years and where we are now

14:15 Catharine E. Krebs, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Addressing animal methods bias: The peer review bias that favors animal use and sets back adoption of NAMs

15:00 Break

15:15 Sara Green and Michele Salluce, University of Copenhagen
Replacing and refining animal models: Lessons from cancer research and neuroscience

16:00 Nico Müller, University of Basel
Pipelines, mosaics, and mouse-shaped questions: Why the transition beyond animal experiments requires research agenda shifts

16:45 Closing Remarks

17:00 End of workshop






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