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Public engagement can help cultivate support for animal research
Executive director European Animal Research Association Share this article: Tags: Science and society, Ethics, Neurodegenerative disorders, Nonhuman primates, Policy Monique Bosman came to see the monkeys, she says. She lives with Parkinson’s disease, and on a recent visit to the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands, she stood by the outdoor enclosures, watching more than 1,000 monkeys whose brains help researchers study conditions like hers.
Kirk Leech
Kirk Leech is executive director of the European Animal Research Association (EARA), a global communications and advocacy organization that he has led since its founding in 2014. EARA represents more than 240 universities, research institutes, companies and scientific societies across 47 countries. It works to build public and policymaker understanding of why animals are still needed in biomedical research and to promote openness about that work.
Mark Goldman
Mark Goldman is professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior, and professor of ophthalmology and vision science, at the University of California, Davis. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 2000 and did his postdoctoral work in theoretical neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Why animal research is essential to tackling Covid-19
Groups opposed to animal research have fallen silent all of a sudden. Share Topics Politics Science & Tech UK World The normally loud and brash online platforms of activist groups opposed to the use of animals in research are strangely quiet at the moment. It’s easy to see why, of course. The coronavirus pandemic has made their arguments far harder to make than usual.
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