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Registered reports involve peer review prior to data collection to reduce bias and build confidence in studies. This blog showcases the first to be published on the NC3Rs Gateway.

F1000Research logo above portraits of Professor Alistair Lawrence and Dr Vincent Bombail, authors of the first Registered Report on the NC3Rs Gateway

The NC3Rs is seeking a well-connected and ambitious Board Chair to help steer its work over the next three years.

A collage of images to illustrate the work that the NC3Rs does. From top left to bottom right: A scientist in a white coat looks down a microscope, two white rats sit in cardboard tubes, a cell plate, researchers standing around some equipment, a macaque sits on a swing, well plate with pink fluid, a technician moving animals between cages and a zebrafish tank showing three partial zebrafish swimming.

Our first Mega-CRACK IT Challenge which seeks to exploit advances in computational approaches and machine learning to develop a “Virtual Dog” to ultimately replace their use for chronic toxicity studies.

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Our top ten announcements and outputs from this year including 100 Tox Team papers published, 150 Project Grant Scheme awards and over £50M committed to replacement projects.

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Funding of £1.2M is available through this year’s CRACK IT Challenges competition. The two Challenges encompass animal use in the key areas of endocrine disruption and CAR-T cell therapy.

T-ALERT and Thyroid Tox Challenge images