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FROM AAVS American Anti-Vivisection Society
August 2020

Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF) awarded grants totaling nearly $280,000 to seven projects that are developing alternatives to reduce or replace the use of animals in research and testing.

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This week, AAVS affiliate, the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF) awarded grants totaling nearly $280,000 to seven projects that are developing alternatives to reduce or replace the use of animals in research and testing. The work done by this year’s grantees is particularly exciting and addresses important biomedical issues.

For example, two studies are developing models to study COVID-19, without the use of animals. With the hope to discover successful drug treatments, other projects are focused on developing alternatives using human tissue that model heart function and bone formation, as well as non-animal methods to screen drugs against acute myeloid leukemia.

Two projects are developing alternatives to address uses of animals that are not widely known, such as the use of mice to test stem cells and their ability to morph into different tissue types and the use of kittens and mice to culture and harvest the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which causes food-borne illnesses.

ARDF is one of AAVS’s most distinctive initiatives because it directly supports the development of alternatives that solve the problems of animal testing—one grant at a time. Since 1993, through the generosity of our supporters, ARDF has provided over $3.75 million to fund projects that focus on replacing the use of animals in research, testing, and education.

For more, vivist Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF).


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