On 19 June 2024, the 3Rs Centre Utrecht together with the TPI programme will host a conference on the future of animal-free biomedical research at the Jaarbeurs Media Plaza Utrecht.
Jan van der Valk will be leaving as head of the 3Rs-Centre at the end of 2021. In the last few years he more or less personified the centre all by himself, with a few support staff who came and went.
On 26 October 2021, Utrecht University will organise an online symposium on Open Science and animal experiments, applicable to all phases of animal research.
Feline Lindhout, a researcher at Utrecht University, has set up and mapped a neurobiological model system using cultured cells, all without laboratory animals.