It’s less than 24hrs until the start of the Animal Replacement Technologies Forum 2025, where we will be highlighting the advancements in animal replacement technologies research. Please tag us in your posts if you are attending the event!🤩 #gw4 #3Rs Cardiff University School of Biosciences

Set up for the 1st Animal Replacement Technologies Forum in the Sir Martin Evans building Cardiff University School of Biosciences is going well! What an amazing venue to hold our first event!😍 #3rs #GW4

Dr Ed Carter (lifesciencebath @uniofbath) has introduced our first keynote speaker Professor Umber Cheema (Bioengineering @UCL), who is giving a fascinating talk titled “Advanced biomimetic 3D models to mimic tumour-stroma”

Session 1 had excellent presentations by Dr Yasir Syed (Cardiff University Neuroscience & Mental Health), Dr Natalie Connor-Robson Natalie Connor-Robson & Dr Hazel Hall-Roberts Dr Hazel Hall-Roberts (both UK Dementia Research Institute Cardiff University ). Exciting research on oligoorganoids, endocytic dysfunction in AD & iPSC-Derived Microglia Models.

Dr Hazel Hall-Roberts (@ukdri @hazellroberts) has introduced our second keynote speaker, Dr Sally Cowley (@dunn_school @uniofoxford), who is giving a thought-provoking talk titled “Modelling neuroinflammation using human iPS cells”.

We have just started Session 2, which is our PhD and ECR showcase. This session will feature talks from Nika Barbara Pravica (University of Bristol), Uroosa Chughtai (Cardiff University), Shichun Gu (University of Bristol ), Xiaoyuan Gu (University of Exeter) and Jingrui Hu (University of Exeter).

That’s a wrap!!🏁We’ve reached the end of the 1st Animal Replacement Technologies Forum🙌🏼It’s been a day full of very interesting & exciting science!🧫🥼🧬💭 Many thanks to all the organisers, speakers, chairs, poster presenters and our sponsors GW4 Alliance 🙏🏻🤩