SGV Awards
SGV Award 2024
PD Dr. Paulin Jirkof
University of Zurich
SGV Award 2023
PD Dr. Alessandra Bergadano
University of Bern
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 2017
Refinement
Dr Penny Hawkins
Dr Elliot Lilley
Royal Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty RSPCA
Humane endpoints
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 2015
Reduction
Prof Irving Zucker
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Underepresentation of female mice in neuroscience: a meta-analysis
SGV Award 2014
Refinement
Prof Paul Flecknell
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Analgesic Best Practice for the Use of Animals in Research: a review
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.
SGV Award 2010
Replacement
Pascal Narcisse Martin
Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Silicon Rabbit Ear
SGV Award 2009
Refinement
Anne Julien
Richard Boutet
Centre de Recherche Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Canada
Micro-tatto Aramis