Communication & Collaboration:

An International Forum for Animal Research Policy

June 24 & 25, 2008

Washington, DC

A ground-breaking meeting will take place in Washington, DC on June 24 & 25, 2008. Ten colleague organizations from the US, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK will convene to explore global strategies for ensuring a safe and supportive environment in which biomedical research involving animals can thrive. Challenges to that goal, best current practices and recommendations for future action will be shared by attendees in three professional interest tracks: Science and Public Policy; Communications and Public Opinion; and Security, Law Enforcement and Crisis Prevention.

Keynote speakers and expert panelists will set the stage, highlight common issues and suggest the consequences of inaction. Forum organizers from the US are Americans for Medical Progress and the Foundation and National Association for Biomedical Research.

Please see www.animalresearchforum.org for program details and registration information. To obtain a username and password for secure website areas or for answers to other questions, contact info@animalresearchforum.org.  

The NABR 2008 Leadership Conference and Michael DeBakey Journalism Awards Dinner will be held on June 23, 2008 immediately preceding the International Forum. Registration for all three events is available on the Forum website. More information is also available at www.nabrleadershipconference.org and www.fbresearch.org.

An Important Professional Development Opportunity

Investigation, Institutional Committees

and Innovation

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September 25 & 26, 2008

Waltham, MA

How can IACUCs, IRBs and IBCs fulfill their responsibilities while dealing with advances in technology and research practice?

Learn from the experts and your peers in 1½ days of presentations, case studies and hands-on exercises. Academic, industry and regulatory leaders will guide sessions on topics ranging from Emerging Issues in Imaging Technology to FDA Humanitarian Use, and from BSL 4 Facilities to The Changing Paradigm for Animal Research.

Full details coming soon.

Animal Research in a Global Environment

September 23 - 26, 2008

Washington, DC

ILAR will hold an international conference September 23-26, 2008 in Washington, DC on Animal Research in a Global Environment: Meeting the Challenges. This pivotal meeting will bring together those in the international animal research community who participate in or are planning to conduct international collaborative studies in research or testing to further biomedical advances. Challenges to international research efforts include differences in regulations or guidelines for the use of animals, quality of training for those who work with animals, quality of veterinary care, and quality of the animals themselves. Participants will address these and other topics, such as outsourcing studies and issues specific to research with mice and nonhuman primates. Participants will also have an opportunity to interact with members of the Committee to Update the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals during a question and answer session.

For more information, please visit:
http://dels.nas.edu/ilar_n/ilarhome/conference/

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Living Proof - Seniors Talk About Medical Advances
Have all the changes in medicine and medical care over the last 50 years improved your life or the life of a loved one or patient? Tell your story at the Living Proof project. Living Proof invites folks aged 55 and older to write in their own words how medical advances have helped them. The stories will be posted on the Living Proof website. To learn more about the Living Proof project, click here.   Also, get the new Living Proof: Faces of Research streaming video and teacher's classroom resources by clicking here.