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2010 - ReCAL 2

Professor David Dewhurst at the University of Edinburgh has been awarded a new grant for 2010 which will enable the fruition of the ReCAL project – one which will have spanned a longstanding LDF collaboration...

2010 - Neuroimaging

The well established and successful collaboration LDF maintains with Professor Paul Furlong at Aston University will be extended as LDF grants funding for a further five years. Professor Furlong had...

LDF cartilage research showcased at international conference

The ongoing novel research by Dr Vehid Salih and Dr Jamie Harle, into a human, in vitro model of cartilage for testing the healing properties of ultrasound, has continued to produce pleasing results. Currently,...

Revising and updating computer assisted learning objectives

RECAL2 – enhancing the impact of computer – based educational alternatives on animal use in teaching biomedical sciences. This project, now in its third year, has seen a total of 35 computer-assisted...

Some Past LDF Successes

In the past 20 years, the Lord Dowding Fund has been at the forefront of important research in a wide range of disciplines, here are just a few examples of the diversity of work we have supported: Testing...

Human cell system to fight hospital killer

The past two decades have seen the emergence of a new disease, termed Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, or MODS. This syndrome has reached epidemic proportions in most intensive care units (ICUs) and...

2004-05 Education - Alternatives in higher education lecture tour of Brazil

In 2004, the LDF sponsored a lecture tour of Brazilian universities by Dr David Dewhurst to promote computer based teaching packages replacing animals. Dr Dewhurst and Professor Elaine Del Bel visited...

2004-05 Education - RLO approach to stimulating use of alternatives in education

For almost 20 years, the LDF has been working with Dr David Dewhurst of the University of Edinburgh to develop programmes replacing animals in university practicals, saving countless animals all over the...