We’re happy to announce that PETA Science Consortium Worldwide e.V. has been shortlisted for the distinguished Lush Prize in Science! The Science Consortium nabbed a spot on the 2024 shortlist for its work to exchange using animals in checks that assess how chemical compounds have an effect on human lungs.

The Lush Prize in Science, which is open to submissions worldwide, awards probably the most promising tasks that can result in the acceptance of non-animal testing strategies by regulatory companies.

The Science Consortium is in good firm—additionally making the shortlist this 12 months are candidates from Taiwan, Japan, Portugal, the U.Okay., Poland, and the U.S., together with the U.S.-based firm Emulate for its work creating a human liver-chip mannequin and a U.S. collaboration creating a non-animal mannequin for predicting developmental toxicity.

PETA scientists have been working for years to develop and promote non-animal strategies that higher predict what occurs when people inhale chemical compounds.

This method avoids checks during which animals, typically rats, are confined to small tubes and compelled to inhale poisonous chemical compounds.

Final 12 months, PETA scientists coauthored a breakthrough examine—funded partially by the Science Consortium—displaying that frozen human lung slices work in addition to contemporary ones to evaluate the toxicity of inhaled chemical compounds, increasing the provision of those tissues for analysis as a substitute of testing on animals.

Different papers they coauthored exhibit how non-animal, cell-based strategies can be utilized to foretell the well being results of inhaled chemical compounds.

The Science Consortium additionally awards researchers tissues and tools and helped fund the event of a first-of-its-kind 3-D mannequin of the decrease respiratory tract. An advisor to the Science Consortium has been shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Younger Researcher Prize for the work she plans to do to extend scientific confidence in non-animal fashions comparable to these, which is vital to gaining their acceptance by regulators.

The 2024 Lush Prize winners shall be introduced in Could.

With Your Assist, PETA Scientists Assist Spare Animals From Chemical Checks

For greater than 10 years, the Science Consortium has collaborated with authorities companies, contract analysis organizations, and firms to exchange checks on animals with scientifically sound, non-animal strategies. The group has additionally printed groundbreaking scientific papers, organized webinars and conferences, and extra.

You can help the Science Consortium’s essential work with a beneficiant donation: