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December 1, 2023
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Utrecht, Netherlands – On International AIDS Day these days, PETA is happy to announce the recipient of a $50,000 grant to fund first-of-its-kind analysis into the many years of animal trying out that has failed to supply an HIV vaccine for people. Dr. Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga, a professor that specialize in “evidence-based transitions to animal-free inventions” at Utrecht College, and her crew will entire the learn about subsequent yr.
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Ritskes-Hoitinga and her crew beat out candidates from all over the world. They’ve already begun the preliminary levels of a systemic overview of research wherein monkeys have been used to check HIV vaccines and can evaluate that information to checks of those vaccines in people. The learn about is predicted to be finished subsequent yr, with e-newsletter to observe.
“International AIDS Day is a sobering time to bear in mind the greater than 40 million individuals who have died from HIV and the wasteful animal experiments that stored no person. A long time of study, together with more than one animal research, haven’t ended in a a success HIV vaccine for people. This systematic overview will scrutinize those ends up in element,” says PETA senior scientist Dr. Emily Trunnell. “PETA is thrilled to award Utrecht College this grant and appears ahead to Dr. Ritskes-Hoitinga’s findings.”
Best people contract HIV and expand AIDS. However nonhuman primates have traditionally been the go-to style for HIV analysis. On the seven federally funded primate analysis facilities within the U.S., experimenters infect macaques with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a distinct illness from HIV this is distinctive to African primates, or they use an engineered SIV/HIV concoction to imitate the human virus. Thus far, this means hasn’t labored.
Previous to shifting to Utrecht in 2012, Ritskes-Hoitinga—a pace-setter within the box of preclinical systematic critiques—cofounded the Systematic Overview Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation whilst at Radboud College in Nijmegen.
The grant was once made conceivable thru a beneficiant donation from PETA supporters Vienn and Salman Al-Rashid.
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