InvitroJobs presents scientists and their innovative research in a regular feature called “Working Group – a Portrait”. The focus is on newly developed methods, their evaluation and their potential for reducing and, where possible, replacing animal experimentation according to the “three Rs” of Russell & Burch (reduce, refine, replace).
Our third article presents selected examples from the research group “Short Term Toxicology” in the department “Experimental Toxicology and Ecology” at BASF SE. It is necessary to define the scope of this article this narrowly as there are over 50 staff members in five laboratories, with more than 20 methods being implemented and nearly as many again in development.

Starting with this article, InvitroJobs will present scientists and their innovative research in a regular feature called “Working Group – a Portrait”. We will focus on newly developed methods, their evaluation and their potential for reducing and where possible replacing animal experimentation according to the 3R principle of Russel & Burch (reduce, refine, replace). We start with two research groups from the Clinical Research Laboratory of the Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Department of Tübingen University Hospital, “Haemocompatibility” and “Pyrogen assay”. The introduction is followed by an interview with Dr. med. Stefan Fennrich.