Report 2025
Internal training
Every year, a member company in Switzerland offers an array of federally approved training courses and one special day of continuing education, enabling associates that work with animals in research to meet their statutory training requirements. Topics of the training day include:
- Info about current animal welfare topics
- Update on ongoing Swiss initiatives regarding animal research
- Studying neural networks in-silico
- Animal behind the top drugs/top medical devices and current public landscape/legislation for animal research in the U.S.
- Retirement of non-human primates
- Turning Knowing, Into Doing: Evaluation of a Workshop to Train Scientists How to Appropriately Include Sex as a Biological Variable
- Micropipette-guided drug administration as a gentle alternative to oral gavage
- Gottingen Minipigs – 30 years in drug development mitigating clinical development risks
- Effects of environmental enrichment on cancer, immunity and aging
- Applying microsampling in drug discovery: Supporting science and the 3Rs
On the training day, information on any changes, including legislation and directives, are also provided. This ensures that the employees are informed about the current state of the legislation as well as on the concerns of the Animal Experimentation Commission.
Furthermore, practical training is also offered in this member company via the Training Services group. Training is provided to all new employees in the field of animal research in order to ensure uniform standards. Additionally, special events and advanced training are also offered for experienced employees. These continuing education courses can be officially recognized as counting toward required continuing education days.
Project name: Internal Training and Continuing Education in Animal Research
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