The Bellinzona Institutes of Science (Bios+) is recognised for their Culture of Care towards their laboratory animals.

The 2024 Young 3Rs Investigator Awards have been awarded to Doris Zauchner (ETH Zürich) and Manon Murdeu (EMPA) for their outstanding work in advancing human-relevant alternatives to animal testing. Their innovative research in rare disease modeling and reproductive toxicology exemplifies the 3Rs principle by reducing animal use while enhancing the quality and ethical standards of biomedical science.

Fides Zenk of EPFL has received the 2024 3Rs Award from the Swiss 3R Competence Centre (3RCC) for her groundbreaking work using human brain organoids to study early neurodevelopment. Her research provides a powerful new approach to understanding how genes are regulated during early brain formation—a key to unlocking the mechanisms behind neurodevelopmental disorders.

Awarded for their pioneering initiative in promoting Good Surgical Practice in rodent surgery.

Duygu Yazici has received the Young 3Rs Investigator Award for creating advanced lab models that mimic human organs using stem cell technology and organ-on-a-chip devices.

Viola Bugada (Institute of Experimental Immunology, UZH) receives the Young 3Rs Investigator Award for her contribution to refining oral drug administration to rodents.

The 3Rs Award 2023 goes to the STRIDE-Lab led by Benjamin Ineichen, Research group leader, Center for Reproducible Science, UZH) for its exceptional contributions to animal welfare in research.

The Animal Caretaker Team from the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel has exhibited an exemplary approach to sustainably reduce surplus animals.

The 3Rs Young Investigators Award 2022 goes to Wei Wei from ETH Zürich for his work on creating a three-dimensional model of the brain’s protective wall, the blood-brain-barrier.

The 3Rs Award 2022 goes to Prof. Guillaume Andrey from the University of Geneva for his work to reduce the use of transgenic animals in developmental studies.

The 2022 and inaugural CoC award goes Dr. Julie Parchet-Piccand for her project on improving the knowledge of experimental licenses and research projects for animal caretakers.

The 2021 3Rs Young Investigator Award goes to Pauline Zamprogno from the ARTORG for her contribution to a lung-on-chip model.

The 2021 3Rs Award goes to Bernhard Voelkl from the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Bern for his work improving better design of animal studies.

The Young 3Rs Investigator Award 2020 will go to Joseph Scarborough for his work in Prof. Urs Meyer’s laboratory at the Institute of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich.

The 3Rs Award 2020 will go to Ronald Dijkman at the Institute for Infectious Diseases of the University of Bern.

For 2019, the 3RCC awards Kristin Schirmer and Melanie Fischer from Eawag for their outstanding research work in the 3Rs area of replacement.