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Why a Progressive Non-Animal Research Society?

The Progressive Non-Animal Research Society (PNARS) is a non-profit organization that brings the message of innovative, humane, biomedical breakthroughs to the health care professional/scientific community and supports emerging and established scientists in the fields of biomedical research, testing and training who use, or are interested in using, new approach methodologies (NAMs) – often referred to as non-animal methods. Read more.

Featured Items and Events:

[PNARS Report] Environmental Impacts of Animal Experimentation. Opportunities for Change: The New St. Paul’s Hospital and Health Campus. (April 2023).

[News] Australian Scientists Grow Replica Human Lungs and Call for End to Animal Testing. The Guardian. April 11, 2023.

[Grant Applications] The BC Foundation for Non-Animal Research (BC FNAR) has announced that applications for it’s 2023 funding grant is now open.

[Poster] 10 Dangerous Drugs that Passed the Animal Testing Phase Only To Cause Damage To Human Health. Created for PNARS by Crystal Mathews.

[Poster] Alternatives to Animal Models poster created for PNARS by Crystal Mathews.

[Panel Discussion] Panel discussion following our screening of The Medical Illusion with film maker Gary Charbonneau, Dr. Jarrod Bailey and Dr. Andre Menache.

[Medication alert] IMBRUVICA (ibrutinib) – Risk of Serious and Fatal Cardiac Arrhythmias or Cardiac Failure. 2022-08-29.

[Event] The 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences will take place in Niagara Falls, Canada on August 27-31, 2023. Registration opens Sept. 1, 2022.

[Blog] New Pathways for Medical Research. ‘In what direction is medical research going? It is clear from a step into the Willerth lab at the University of Victoria that the answer is quite simply: advanced technology.’ Read more.

[Interview] Meet the Canadian researcher determined to take the animals out of lab testing. Quirks & Quarks, CBC Radio, May 6, 2022.

[Article] Miniature heart replica could help optimize cardiac disease treatments. Physics World, May 5, 2022.

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