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It is time to think about the summer school for the next year! The application deadline to attend the Organ-on-Chip Summer School is January 15th, 2025. Make sure to apply on time, only 32 participants can attend! Find more information here ➡ https://lnkd.in/eq_ErZ9e #summerschool #organonchip #apply #3Rs

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Such an inspiring last month of research discussions around the world! I am honored to have been able to share and discuss different aspects of our research, from multiple angles and setups, and to both share and broaden my perspective on our research. First, I had the opportunity to present at #SfN2024 in Chicago, then for the HUS neurologists in Helsinki, and now this week at the FIN3R symposium in Oulu. Huge thanks to the University of Helsinki doctoral school, the Finnish Foundation for Drug Research, and FIN3R for supporting my travel to present at these venues.

Great meeting is behind us! Looking forward to the next year! #fin3r #symposium #3Rs #replacement #reduction #refinement

Honored to participate in the great FIN3R annual symposium in Oulu to foster the quality of biomedical research! Inspiring presentations, brilliant minds, fundamental principles of research quality, experimental design, randomization, blinding, avoiding of bias, power analysis and hypothesis driven research. Grateful for the opportunity to learn, connect, and discuss. Reduction, refinement, replacement and reproducibility!

In the last session of the Finnish 3Rs Annual Symposium 2024, we had an opportunity to discuss many interesting topics! Guillaume Pavlovic has presented Institut Clinique de la Souris's efforts in the standardization and improving of the laboratory animal genetic reporting. Refinement in the preclinical research has been the main topic of Gillian Curie's talk, providing interesting insight at research done at the University of Bristol. Finally, our keynote speaker, Otto Kalliokoski from Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, presented a surprising data on fraudulent animal studies. We have engaged in the discussion of how it impacts the research and how such occurrences could be prevented. We are extending a big thank you for everyone attending the workshops and lectures, all of the speakers for the amazing efforts they are giving to the science and willingness to share it with us, all the sponsors for their support and participation in our activities and our organizing committee and University of Oulu for a smooth and flawless meeting! Until next year! 👋 #fin3r #symposium #finland #3Rs #refinement #replacement #reduction

The refinement session today was dedicated to a discussion on the habituation, handling, and housing of rodents 🐭 The 3Hs initiative was a main topic for Megan Jackson from the University of Bristol, while Julia Swan from the University of Eastern Finland has shared insightful practices and protocols for handling rodents, how it can impact their well-being, and the research outcomes. Today, the three short oral presentations were centered around good practices of animal experiments, showing a lot of useful findings! #fin3r #3Rs #finland #symposium #refinement #reduction #replacement

Wrapping up the session of great presentations! The morning was reserved for the introduction of the FIN3R's Replacement activities, followed by the presentations showing the transition from the use of animals to alternative models in research! First, Andreas Romaine from the University of Oslo presented his work on cardiac fibrosis, followed by Anna Dowbaj from MPI-CBG - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, sharing lessons from alternatives in liver research. Thank you for the very important and interesting talks! #fin3r #symposium #3Rs #finland #replacement #refinement #reduction

The Finnish 3Rs Annual Symposium kicked off yesterday! After having the first day reserved for the practical workshops, today was dedicated to scientific talks! First for the day was Dario Greco, (Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology) discussing integrated approaches in toxicology. Following, Daniel Persson from the University of Helsinki presented his research focused on anesthetic influence on cerebrospinal fluids in rodents. The poster session was finalized by inspiring short oral presentations from prospective researchers from Tampere University and the University of Oulu. To close the day, we had the honor to hear University of Zurich's Thorsten Buch and his experience regarding the breeding of laboratory animals! Tomorrow, more exciting presentations are coming, stay tuned! #fin3r #symposium #3Rs #finland #refinement #replacement #reduction #toxicology #pharmacology #laboratoryanimals #breeding #rodents #research

We are at the Danmarks 3R-Center's symposium to network, disseminate information about our work and learn from others! Here Emelie Jansson is catching up with Vootele Voikar from the Finish 3Rs Center FIN3R while being photographed by Lotte Martoft.