Learn how we will be marking 10 years of CRACK IT throughout 2021.
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Our Training Fellowship scheme supports the development of promising early career researchers with less than three years’ postdoctoral experience.
For World Brain Day 2020, we take a look at some of the latest findings of NC3Rs Grant holders who are using 3Rs methods to provide insights into neuroscience.
Dr Jan van der Valk is the Director of the 3Rs-Centre Utrecht Life Sciences in the Netherlands.
Recent articles in the scientific press have questioned whether the 3Rs should be replaced by a broader ethical framework for animal research.
Earlier this year, NC3Rs staff met with animal technicians from different universities around the UK to discuss the ways they introduce new environmental enrichment into their facilities.
In this guest blog post, Professor Paul Flecknell and Jon Gledhill of FLAIRE Learning share the e-learning resources they’ve developed for those working with laboratory animals and how e-learning can complement more traditional training approaches.
Running a 3Rs award scheme is one way that biopharmaceutical companies can support scientists and animal care staff to put the 3Rs into practice. In this guest blog post, Paul Finnemore and Stewart Owen share how AstraZeneca is supporting
This year’s PhD Studentship call is now open. To mark this we are highlighting some of the scientific and 3Rs impacts from our earliest awards made in collaboration with the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
Animal care staff at the University of Dundee's Medical School Resources Unit (MSRU) have put a number of refinements into practice over the past 18 months, including improving environmental enrichment and refining their breeding colonies.
Lesley Gilmour is the University of Glasgow’s Named Training and Competency Officer (NTCO), responsible for ensuring that all those working with animals are appropriately trained, supervised and competent.
In this blog post we look back at our 2019 Animal Technicians’ Symposium, a joint event with the Institute of Animal Technology (IAT).
We recently worked with MRC Harwell to create Secret Lives of Mice, a new citizen science project based on the Rodent Little Brother CRACK IT Challenge.
Last month we sponsored three events as part of Pint of Science, an annual festival that invites researchers into pubs and cafes around the world to speak to the public about what they do.
In this guest blog post, Dr Sally Robinson, Director of Animal Sciences and Technologies at AstraZeneca (Alderley Park), explores how the company has implemented the single use of needles as a refinement across their sites.
Our peer review and advice service supports UK funding bodies to ensure the 3Rs are properly implemented in the research they fun
As ever, 2018 has been a year full of activity for the NC3Rs. Our website’s news and blogs section has featured 38 posts this year covering a range of important 3Rs topics.
To mark the launch of our F1000Research gateway, we are highlighting the researchers behind the first four papers published on the new platform.
The NC3Rs has launched a new video presentation on the 3Rs and their scientific importance, for use in the training of scientists, technicians, students and others involved with animal research.
July saw our annual Summer School take place in Manchester.
