SGV Awards

SGV Award 2022

Communication
Dr Maike Heimann
Public interest in animal experimentation–how to make them care?

SGV Award 2019

Reduction
Prof. Hanno Würbel
University of Bern, Switzerland
Embracing variability to improve reproducibility and minimize animal use

Refinement
Prof. Jane Hurst
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Tunneling - non-aversive handling of mice

Replacement
Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Alternatives to Mammalian Screening Models

SGV Award 2018

Refinement
Prof. Vera Baumans
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Animal welfare and good science: where are we going?

SGV Award 2016

Reduction
Prof M. MacLeod
University of Edingburgh, United Kingdom
Risk of Bias in Reports of In Vivo Research: A Focus for Improvement

SGV Award 2013

Refinement
Prof Joseph Garner
Department of Comparative Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Dr Brianna Gaskill
Department of Animal Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States of America
The impact of nesting enrichment on the thermal behavior, physiology and wellbeing of laboratory mice

SGV Award 2012

Refinement
Professor Jeffrey S. Mogil
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Facial expression of pain in laboratory rodents

SGV Award 2011

Refinement
Dr Maike Heimann
Novartis Pharma AG, Preclinical Safety, Basel, Switzerland
Sublingual and submandibular blood collection in mice: a comparison of effects on body weight, food consumption and tissue damage

Reduction-Refinement
Prof. Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
A gold standard publication checklist for improved design, reporting and improving scientific quality of animal studies, to fully integrate the Three Rs, and to make systematic reviews more feasible.