To improve animal welfare in Switzerland, we need to understand not only how many animals and which species are used but also how they are used. By analysing 27 years of publicly available data, we examined trends in the number of animal uses and their severity...
The Bellinzona Institutes of Science (Bios+) is recognised for their Culture of Care towards their laboratory animals. The Culture of Care Working Group of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Bellinzona Institutes of Science (Bios+) won the Culture of Care...
The Swiss 3R Competence Centre (3RCC) honours the Award winners: Fides Zenk, Doris Zauchner & Manon Murdeu for groundbreaking, human-relevant research replacing and reducing animal use in science. 2024 Award Press Release We met with Prof. Fides Zenk and Manon...
The Pint of Science has had huge success in reaching the public with science for many years and we were delighted to host evenings of the 3Rs presentations and discussion in Bern and Geneva in May 2025. In Bern we were welcomed to Kramer Keller to present each of the...
The Swiss 3R Competence Centre (3RCC) has appointed former Vice Chair, Dr. Homare Yamahachi from the University of Bern as the new Executive Board Chair, effective 2025.
The award goes to Dr. Petra Seebeck (University of Zurich) & Dr. Stephan Zeiter (AO Research Institute Davos) for their pioneering initiative in promoting Good Surgical Practice in rodent surgery.
