The Dr Hadwen Trust is the UK's leading medical research charity that funds and promotes exclusively non-animal techniques to replace animal experiments

Alternatives to animal testing

Many scientists and governments say that animal testing should cause as little suffering as possible, and some argue that alternatives to animal testing need to be developed...

. Established in 1970] (Registered charity number 261096), the work undertaken by the Dr Hadwen Trust benefits humans with the development of more relevant and reliable science whilst also benefiting laboratory animals.

The portfolio of work funded by the Dr Hadwen Trust is high-quality, peer-reviewed and innovative research, combining strict ethical principles and scientific excellence. Projects receiving funding from the Dr Hadwen Trust range from epilepsy

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases...

, multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...

, breast

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

 and skin cancer

Skin cancer

Skin neoplasms are skin growths with differing causes and varying degrees of malignancy. The three most common malignant skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma, each of which is named after the type of skin cell from which it arises...

, meningitis

Meningitis

Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...

, asthma

Asthma

Asthma is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath...

, diabetes and drug testing, to arthritis

Arthritis

Arthritis is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints....

, Parkinson

Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

’s disease, lung injury, whooping cough, vaccine testing

Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins...

, dentistry

Dentistry

Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...

, heart disease

Heart disease

Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

, tropical illness, fetal development

Fetal development

Prenatal or antenatal development is the process in which a human embryo or fetus gestates during pregnancy, from fertilization until birth. Often, the terms fetal development, foetal development, or embryology are used in a similar sense.After fertilization the embryogenesis starts...

, brain tumours

Brain tumor

A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...

 and AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

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The Dr Hadwen Trust is internationally recognised as a leading authority on replacing animal experiments and actively promotes the concept and practice of non-animal research through its policy work, publications, science community outreach and the media. Active memberships of Eurogroup for Animals

Eurogroup for Animals

Eurogroup for Animals is an organisation based in Brussels, Belgium, which seeks to improve the treatment of animals throughout the European Union, and represents animal welfare organisations in almost all the European member states...

, the International Council for Animal Protection in OECD Programmes (ICAPO) and Focus on Alternatives enable the Dr Hadwen Trust to transmit its message globally and effectively. The Dr Hadwen Trust is the Chair of Focus on Alternatives, a coalition of expert non-governmental organisations which fund or promote methods that replace animal experiments.

External links

• Dr Hadwen Trust website
• The Dr Hadwen Trust's science website

Video

• Animal research is poor science, Peter Tatchell
  Peter Tatchell
  Peter Gary Tatchell is an Australian-born British political campaigner best known for his work with LGBT social movements...
  
  interviews Gill Langley of the Dr Hadwen Trust, on Talking with Tatchell, accessed September 4, 2009.