PETA India Leads the Charge in Non-Animal Research at SAAE India Conference
The Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments (SAAE India) – of which PETA India is a founding member – recently concluded its 7th annual international conference, where more than a hundred attendees from discussed the latest in non-animal approaches.
As an executive committee member of SAAE India, PETA India was instrumental in organising the three-day event at Jamia Hamdard university, New Delhi. This year’s event, jointly organised with the 4th Asian Congress for Alternatives to Animal Experiments, witnessed the establishment of the Asian Federation of Societies for Alternatives to Animal Experiments.
PETA India’s regulatory scientists chaired two sessions aiming to unite key stakeholders in a discussion on the use of non-animal methods for toxicity testing of pesticides and pyrogen testing of pharmaceuticals and medical devices in India. The sessions provided a forum for collaborative dialogue among government regulators, companies, scientists, and other experts in the toxicology field to advance the use of non-animal testing methods.
Topics included the current regulatory and industrial acceptance and use of non-animal tests, the existing barriers around their use, and recommended policy initiatives to further transition from tests on animals to 21st century non-animal testing methods.
Early-Career Award-Winner Continues Legacy of Late PETA India Scientist
In addition to bringing stakeholders together, SAAE India annually presents the “Dr Dipti M Kapoor Endowment Award” to an early-career researcher working to advance non-animal methods. This year, Dr Prajakta Dandekar Jain from the Institute of Chemical Technology received the award for her contributions to developing organ-on-chip models focused on the skin, retina, and lungs for research and drug development.
The award commemorates the late PETA India Science Policy Advisor Dr Dipti M Kapoor, celebrating her ingenuity and tremendous contributions to advancing non-animal testing methods. In her work to modernise science around the world, Dr Kapoor who would otherwise have been used in laboratories.
In honour of Dr Kapoor and the animals for whom she cared deeply, we, her colleagues at PETA India, will vigorously continue her efforts to end experiments on animals in ways that would have made her proud.
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