August 2018

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First-hand impressions from the 2018 NC3Rs Summer School

July saw our annual Summer School take place in Manchester. This year’s Summer School brought together 24 PhD students who were either NC3Rs-funded...

2019 Skills and Knowledge Transfer grant scheme: a new collaboration with Cancer Research UK

This year marks the beginning of a new collaboration between Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the NC3Rs as we offer joint awards to support the sharing...

Galleria mellonella as a novel non-mammalian infection model for TB

A pioneering study has shown that a simple invertebrate, larvae of the wax moth Galleria mellonella, can be used as a novel infection model for...

£2.4m awarded in grants to advance the 3Rs

We have recently committed £2.4m to seven new project grants, awarded to outstanding projects from a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our...

How to decide your sample size when the power calculation is not straightforward

Dr Simon Bate, from Statistical Sciences, GSK, is an expert in experimental design and author of the book The Design and Statistical Analysis of...