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- Joint Academies letter to the Prime Minister regarding the HoL Science and Technology Committee
- Strengthening Academic Psychiatry
- European Data Protection Regulation
- Joint Academies project on human enhancement and the future of work
- Academy contribution to the review of Liberal Democrat Science Policy
- UK health and public health reforms 2011/12
- Stratified medicines
- Transposing the European Directive on animal research into UK law
- Reforms to workforce education and training
- Treatments to avoid transmission of mitochondrial disease
- UK health and public health reforms 2010/11
- Academy response to Government life sciences commitments
- Update: Use of non-human primates in research
- Animals containing human material
- Revision of the EU Clinical Trials Directive 2001/20/EC
- A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research
2012
2011
Update: Use of non-human primates in research
Summary:In 2006, the Academy published a report on the Use of non-human primates in research, chaired by Sir David Weatherall.
One of the recommendations of the Weatherall report was that the major funding organisations should undertake a systematic review of the outcomes of their research using non-human primates supported over the last decade.
In 2011, the BBSRC, MRC and Wellcome Trust responded to this recommendation by commissioning and funding an independent 'Review of Research Using Non-Human Primates', which was led by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson FRS.
The Bateson review aimed to: assess the quality, outputs and impacts of research in this area on advancing knowledge in human and animal health; identify the strengths and weaknesses of the funded science in this field; inform their future science and funding strategies; and feed the outcomes of the review into any Government strategy on NHP use.
The 2011 Bateson review is available here.
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