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    INTERNICHE HUMANE EDUCATION AWARD INVESTS IN NEW ALTERNATIVES WORLDWIDE

    Proefdiervrij, Netherlands
    July 3 2006

    Eight exciting projects submitted to the InterNICHE Humane Education
    Award have now been chosen for their positive pedagogical and ethical
    impact on life science education.

    The Award is an international grant program to support initiatives
    that can enhance veterinary, medical and biological science education
    by replacing harmful animal use with progressive alternative methods.

    Sponsored by Dutch anti-vivisection organisation Proefdiervrij, 20,000
    Euro will now be shared between the following successful applicants
    to support their innovative projects:

    * Dr. Fawzy Elnady from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo
    University in Egypt, who will create the world's first camel anatomy
    software to enhance veterinary teaching and replace the killing of
    camels in north African, Middle Eastern and central Asian countries.

    In keeping with the InterNICHE Policy (1), the software will be created
    using the cadaver of a camel that has died naturally or been euthanised
    secondary to serious non-recoverable injury or terminal illness. 1000
    copies of the Arabic/English software will be distributed. The new
    learning tool will also be freeware, thereby optimising the potential
    for widespread replacement.

    * Dr Dmitriy Slyusarenko from the Zooveterinary Institute in Kharkiv,
    Ukraine, whose project will directly replace surgery labs on live
    animals with an innovative cadaver-based alternative. Instead of
    catching and practicing on healthy stray dogs and cats which are
    then either killed or released with injuries, ethically sourced
    animal cadavers and Aboud's Method (2) of perfusing cadavers for
    'live' surgery practice will be implemented. Students will be offered
    fully ethical learning opportunities that provide a greater degree
    of freedom to achieve genuine mastery in surgical training through
    repeated and highly realistic practice. Syrian neurosurgeon Dr Emad
    Aboud will advise on the establishment of the model.

    * Dr Armen Vardapetyan from Yerevan State University in Armenia,
    who will implement software alternatives and new hardware to achieve
    replacement in zoology practical classes and establish a multimedia
    learning environment. The project will begin with frog anatomy
    alternatives but it is envisaged that the curricular transformation
    will lead to full replacement of all vertebrate use. This modernisation
    of the curriculum and teaching process locally will be complemented
    by promotion of alternatives and sharing of experience at other
    universities and ethics committees nationally.

    * Dr Lili Duda from the University of Pennsylvania in the USA,
    who will expand the existing but small-scale body donation program
    (Educational Memorial Program) for ethically sourced cadavers at the
    School of Veterinary Medicine. The expanded program will provide an
    alternative track in surgery practical classes for conscientiously
    objecting students. An investigation into better preservation and
    storage techniques, and distribution of informational brochures
    to educate clients of the teaching hospital and the wider faculty,
    will also be undertaken.

    * Dr. Julia Maria Matera from the College of Veterinary Medicine at
    the University of São Paulo in Brazil, who will investigate techniques
    for improving the preservation of cadavers used for surgery practice,
    with a special focus on tropical climates and chemical preservation
    of abdominal organs. The animal cadavers used in the project will
    be ethically sourced, as defined by the InterNICHE Policy (1),
    using a body donation program already established in the teaching
    hospital. Replacement of live animal use already achieved has been well
    received by students and has provided a better learning environment
    for surgical skills acquisition.

    * Dr Gabriel Cotor from the Veterinary Faculty in Bucuresti, Romania,
    who will introduce student self-experimentation using the advanced
    Biopac Student Lab. Following widespread replacement with software
    and a multimedia lab in recent years, the new apparatus will replace
    the majority of remaining invasive experiments within physiology
    teaching. A wide range of practicals are possible with the computer-
    linked apparatus, which has strong advantages over the animal labs
    for illustrating physiological principles.

    * Dr Marta Saloña-Bordas from Department of Zoology & Animal
    Cell Biology at the University of the Basque Country, who will
    develop a free-access on-line invertebrate anatomy resource in
    Spanish for replacement of zoology practical classes that use killed
    invertebrates. The project will dovetail with existing efforts for e-
    learning and for reduction of harmful animal use. The sourcing of the
    invertebrates will also be in keeping with the InterNICHE Policy,
    and will provide a humane alternative for students and teachers
    concerned about wild collection of invertebrates and maintaining the
    ecological balance.

    * Dr Aleksander Ivanc from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and
    Mathematics at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina, who
    will introduce a range of physiology video and software alternatives
    to provide new tools for practical classes. Translation on paper
    will facilitate effective implementation of the alternatives, and
    appropriate testing and assessment of student performance with the new
    methods will also be undertaken. The project will replace the annual
    use of over 500 frogs, rats and snails, a significant reduction of
    harmful animal use.

    http://www.proefdiervrij.nl/client/1/?websit eid=1&contentid=875

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