1st International Symposium and Workshop on Systematic Reviews in Laboratory Animal Science

9 and 10 February 2012

Celebrating 5 years 3R Research Centre and stimulating an international discussion and collaboration on Systematic Reviews of animal studies

The 3R Research Centre was founded in December 2006 at the Central Animal Laboratory in Nijmegen in order to improve the implementation of the 3Rs principles (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement of animal experiments) in academic research. In recent year the focus of the Centre has shifted from being solely oriented towards the 3Rs to encourage the use of Systematic Reviews of animal studies.

A Systematic Review is a thorough analysis of earlier conducted and published experiments. They form the basis of evidence-based medicine and are already standard practice for clinical studies. The use of SRs for the optimisation of animal testing is however still rare. The 3RRC encourages the use of SRs in animal studies as they improve scientific quality, lead to implementation of the 3Rs principles and increase translational transparency of animal studies.

The symposium will give an overview of the state-of-the-art of systematic reviews in laboratory animal science and what we can learn from the experience of clinic systematic reviews. Examples of issues addressed by the speakers include: publication bias, quality of reporting, open access to all scientific results and implementation of SR’s.

For the second day we invite you to participate in a course and ‘hands on’ workshop on Systematic Reviews, which gives the possibility to actually practice the steps necessary to take in the process of performing Systematic Reviews of animal studies.

InvitationImplementation of Systematic Reviews in laboratory animal science is a new and interdisciplinary topic which asks for international discussion and collaboration. This first international symposium aims at stimulating both. We therefore cordially invite you to participate in this 2 day event.