As part of the prize winners awards in the category junior research the laureates were asked about their experiences and impressions of their research environment. It turned out that young researchers who are not already working in an active research group engaged in the field of replacement methods to animal experiments, find it difficult to get enough support.

The junior researchers also reported about fellow students, displaying themselves indifferent to animal experiments and beeing unable to influence the institutional beliefs. The respondents also observed that research directors did not accept that non-animal procedures were effective at all. Others were confronted with hostility when they questioned the effectiveness and design of animal studies.

The report can be found on the online board Pilas. The results of the survey were published in ATLA, edition 42.6 (2014).

Source:
http://www.frame.org.uk/young-researchers/
http://pilas.org.uk/43-1brown/