We’re happy to announce that PETA Science Consortium Worldwide e.V. has been shortlisted for the distinguished Lush Prize in Science! The Science Consortium nabbed a spot on the 2024 shortlist for its work to interchange the usage of animals in exams that assess how chemical substances have an effect on human lungs.
The Lush Prize in Science, which is open to submissions worldwide, awards essentially the most promising tasks that can result in the acceptance of non-animal testing strategies by regulatory companies.
The Science Consortium is in good firm—additionally making the shortlist this yr are candidates from Taiwan, Japan, Portugal, the U.Ok., Poland, and the U.S., together with the U.S.-based firm Emulate for its work growing a human liver-chip mannequin and a U.S. collaboration growing a non-animal mannequin for predicting developmental toxicity.
PETA scientists have been working for years to develop and promote non-animal strategies that higher predict what occurs when people inhale chemical substances.
This method avoids exams by which animals, usually rats, are confined to small tubes and compelled to inhale poisonous chemical substances.
Final yr, PETA scientists coauthored a breakthrough research—funded partly by the Science Consortium—displaying that frozen human lung slices work in addition to contemporary ones to evaluate the toxicity of inhaled chemical substances, increasing the provision of those tissues for analysis as a substitute of testing on animals.
Different papers they coauthored reveal how non-animal, cell-based strategies can be utilized to foretell the well being results of inhaled chemical substances.
The Science Consortium additionally awards researchers tissues and gear and helped fund the event of a first-of-its-kind 3-D mannequin of the decrease respiratory tract. An advisor to the Science Consortium has been shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Younger Researcher Prize for the work she plans to do to extend scientific confidence in non-animal fashions corresponding to these, which is essential to gaining their acceptance by regulators.
The 2024 Lush Prize winners can be introduced in Might.
With Your Assist, PETA Scientists Assist Spare Animals From Chemical Exams
For greater than 10 years, the Science Consortium has collaborated with authorities companies, contract analysis organizations, and corporations to interchange exams on animals with scientifically sound, non-animal strategies. The group has additionally printed groundbreaking scientific papers, organized webinars and conferences, and extra.
You can assist the Science Consortium’s essential work with a beneficiant donation:
