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Patricia V Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • incorporating laboratory Animal Science into responsible biomedical research
    Ilar Journal, 2019
    Co-Authors: Wayne R Barbee, Patricia V Turner
    Abstract:

    Biomedical research has made great strides in the past century leading to rapid advances in human life expectancy, all derived from improved understanding, prevention, and treatment of many diseases and conditions. Research involving laboratory Animals has played a significant role in this medical progress. However, there continues to be controversy surrounding the use of Animals in research, and Animal models have been questioned regarding their relevance to human conditions. While research fraud and questionable research practices could potentially contribute to this problem, we argue that a relative ignorance of laboratory Animal Science has contributed to the "uncontrolled vivarium experiment" that runs parallel to the more controlled scientific experiment. Several variables are discussed, including husbandry, Animal environment, social housing, and more, that can contribute to this uncontrolled experiment, and that can simultaneously decrease quality of life for rodent test subjects when ignored. An argument is put forward that laboratory Animal veterinarians and scientists can and should play an important role in better controlling such variables. Similarly, the laboratory Animal veterinarian and scientist should play an important role in responsible Science by addressing complex interdisciplinary challenges.

  • roles of the international council for laboratory Animal Science iclas and international association of colleges of laboratory Animal medicine iaclam in the global organization and support of 3rs advances in laboratory Animal Science
    Journal of The American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 2015
    Co-Authors: Patricia V Turner, P Vergara, Cynthia Pekow, Judy Macarthur Clark, Kathryn Bayne, William J White, Tsutomu Kurosawa, Seung Hyeok Seok, Philippe Baneux
    Abstract:

    Practical implementation of the 3Rs at national and regional levels around the world requires long-term commitment, backing, and coordinated efforts by international associations for laboratory Animal medicine and Science, including the International Association of Colleges of Laboratory Animal Medicine (IACLAM) and the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS). Together these organizations support the efforts of regional organization and communities of laboratory Animal Science professionals as well as the development of local associations and professional colleges that promote the training and continuing education of research facility personnel and veterinary specialists. The recent formation of a World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Collaborating Center for Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare emphasizes the need for research into initiatives promoting laboratory Animal welfare, particularly in emerging economies and regions with nascent associations of laboratory Animal Science.

Nigel D Scollan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Keith Davies - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory Animal Science and welfare
    PLOS ONE, 2016
    Co-Authors: Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobsonwest, Robert G W Kirk, Ken Applebee, Laura C Bellingan, Manuel Berdoy, Henry Buller, Helen J Cassaday, Keith Davies
    Abstract:

    Improving laboratory Animal Science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social Sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory Animals (the ‘3Rs’), work in the humanities and social Sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory Animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exercises in Science policy, using a collaborative and deliberative approach for the identification of research priorities. Participants were recruited from across the community, invited to submit research questions and vote on their priorities. They then met at an interactive workshop in the UK, discussed all 136 questions submitted, and collectively defined the 30 most important issues for the group. The output is a collaborative future agenda for research in the humanities and social Sciences on laboratory Animal Science and welfare. The questions indicate a demand for new research in the humanities and social Sciences to inform emerging discussions and priorities on the governance and practice of laboratory Animal research, including on issues around: international harmonisation, openness and public engagement, ‘cultures of care’, harm-benefit analysis and the future of the 3Rs. The process outlined below underlines the value of interdisciplinary exchange for improving communication across different research cultures and identifies ways of enhancing the effectiveness of future research at the interface between the humanities, social Sciences, Science and Science policy.

Thomas L Wolfle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • 50 years of the institute for laboratory Animal research ilar 1953 2003
    Ilar Journal, 2003
    Co-Authors: Thomas L Wolfle
    Abstract:

    The history of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) begins, as does all of laboratory Animal Science, with the ancient philosophers, anatomists, and physiologists whose work presaged the use of Animals in biomedical research and the institutions that arose due to this use. Modern laboratory Animal Science and medicine began in the late 1940s and early 1950s as five Chicago-area institutions hired veterinarians to manage their Animal facilities. Each of these men became instrumental in the founding of the organizations that collectively make up the laboratory Animal Science and medicine organizations. Nathan Brewer, one of the “Chicago five,” was particularly influential in the founding of ILAR. His boss at the University of Chicago, Dr. Paul Weiss, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), asked him to help establish a committee with the stated purpose of preparing recommendations to the NAS to develop an office to obtain information on sources of supply for research Animals. This office became ILAR, and Brewer was chairman of its first report on the diseases of laboratory Animals. He was also a founding diplomat and first president of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. This history recognizes the thoughtful and energetic contributions of scientists and veterinarians to ILAR. It provides a 50-year overview of the programs and reports of ILAR and highlights examples where these reports have been adopted by scientists and federal agencies and incorporated into national laws and policies governing the use of Animals in research both in the United States and in other countries.

William R. Lamberson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.