Alternatives to Animal Testing Replacement, Reduction and Refinement in Practice: Are We Doing All We Can?
Department: Religious Studies
Date and Time: May 7, 2021 | 12:00 PM-1:30 PMEvent Location: ZOOM
Event Details
The UCI Center for Medical Humanities, The Program In Religious Studies, and Program for Religious Studies
& the Jain Innovation network
present:
Alternatives to Animal Testing
Replacement, Reduction and Refinement in Practice:
Are We Doing All We Can?
by
Dr. Kathrin Herrmann DVM, Ph.D.
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Friday, May 7, 2021
12:00–1:15 p.m. PT
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Moderated by:
Aaron Kheriaty, professor of psychiatry, UCI School of Medicine; director, Medical Ethics Program, UCI Health
Brianne Donaldson, Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain studies, philosophy, and religious studies, UCI
Opening Remarks by:
Kunal Parikh, Center for Nanomedicine at the Wilmer Eye Institute and Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHU); co-founder of the Jain Innovation Network
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Kathrin Herrmann, DVM, DipECAWBM (AWSEL), Ph.D., is a veterinary expert in animal welfare science, ethics and law. Since 2017, she has worked at the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Beyond Classical Refinement Program.
Her work addresses the reproducibility and translatability crises that science is facing. Taking into consideration insurmountable interspecies differences, solely refining animal studies will not be sufficient to advance human healthcare.
Consequently, Herrmann’s program is critically appraising current animal use practices in science. With teaching the next generation of scientists being a main focus, Herrmann is involved in several international initiatives to improve and extend humane, human-relevant science education. Together with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) Herrmann co-organized and co-hosted the first US Summer School on Innovative Approaches in Science in June 2020, which will take place every two years in alternation with the European Summer School that is organized by the European Commission Joint Research Centre.
Herrmann initiated and co-edited the open access book, Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change, which features 51 authors who critically review current animal use in science, present new and innovative non-animal approaches to address urgent scientific questions, and offer a roadmap towards a human biology based science.
At the end of 2020, Herrmann took an additional position. She is the Animal Protection Commissioner of Berlin, Germany, a role in which she advises the government of Berlin in various animal welfare and protection issues.