(MENAFN- Mid-East.Info) Lush Prize, known as the 'Nobel Prize of the Non-Animal Testing World,' is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for its upcoming award cycle. This coincides with the 12th World Congress, where forward-thinking scientists gather every three years to find alternatives to animal testing. The announcement will take place during the Congress, which takes place at Niagara Falls in Canada between the 27th and 31st of August.
The Lush Prize aims to honour 'outstanding initiatives to end animal use' in product safety. Scientists and advocates from around the world who have shown exceptional progress in the last two years are encouraged to submit their nominations.
For those who have knowledge of pioneering work aligned with the Prize's diverse award themes, detailed nomination guidelines are available on the Lush Prize website. Nominations will close on December 1st, and the awards ceremony is scheduled to be held on May 17th, 2024.
In November 2022 Professor Thomas Hartung, Chair of Evidence-based Toxicology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, described the Lush Prize as the 'Nobel Prize of the non-animal testing world'.
Rob Harrison, Lush Prize Director said:“In the ten years since the Prize began, we have seen the number of scientists with eligible projects grow from the low hundreds to the high thousands as new molecular science-based methods become mainstream. It is only a matter of time now before the old technology of using live animals to discover what might happen in humans becomes replaced by a more credible and accurate human-relevant approach for the benefit of everyone.”
Lush Prize has awarded over $3 million to 126 projects across 35 countries from 2012 to 2022, driving positive change in the scientific community.
This year, new judges have joined the panel, broadening the range of expertise that shapes the future of ethical research and testing methods.
Professor Marize Campos Valadares – Professor of Toxicology at the Pharmacy Faculty, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany since 2023, and Vice-President of the Brazilian Society of Toxicology. Professor Valadares was also a winner of Lush Prize in 2020.
Professor Ellen Fritsche – Professor for Environmental Toxicology, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany in cooperation with the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine. In addition, Ellen holds a Guest Professorship at the Zhejiang Chinese Medical University in Hangzhou, China.
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