IRBLleida joins the Agreement on Openness on Animal Research

Lleida, November 25th, 2016 The Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida) has joined the Agreement on Openness on Animal Research, promoted by the Federation of Scientific Societies in Spain (COSCE), with the collaboration of the European Association of Research Animals (EARA), and launched on 20 September 2016. We are convinced that animal experimentation plays a fundamental role in the discover of the underlying biological mechanisms of disease, and in the developing of medical treatments. Without research in animals, we would not have most of the medicines, antibiotics, vaccines and surgical techniques that are applied nowadays in human and veterinary medicine. An important part of the research undertaken at IRBLleida aims at contributing to the improvement of human health and wellbeing and is carried out thanks to the use of animals, for advancing in the knowledge of the brain, for finding therapies from brain diseases like Alzheimer, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke, etc. More information: http://eara.eu/es/propuesta-cosce/