Dr Hadwen Trust announces five new grants paving the way to replacing animals in experiments
The Dr Hadwen Trust has revealed details of the ground breaking medical research projects it is funding this year, in diverse areas such as epilepsy, bone disease in childhood leukaemia, brain cell imaging, nanotoxicity testing and abdominal pain studies.Through its work, the Dr Hadwen Trust is funding projects which develop more human relevant approaches using modern methods and replace the need for animal experiments, of which there were 3.6 million in 2009. Home Office statistics released in July show that whilst overall numbers of experiments have fallen by 1%, and toxicology tests