Alternative Methods

Funding Support

The Medical Advances Without Animals Trust (MAWA)


MAWA Doctoral Research Scholarship

‘to encourage new scientists to advance the development, validation and application of non-animal methods in medical research’.
Value: $75,000 over 3 years.

2011 winners: 

Mr. John Jg, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne.

Developing a novel method for the enrichment and analysis of nitro-tyrosine ande chlorotyrosines, in application to elucidate the pathogenesis of early stage disease in lung cancer to replace the use of an animal model. 

Ms Meika Foster, School of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Sydney

An alternative approach to Zinc status and effects in cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus in humans to replace deficiency studies in animals. 

Mr. Brett Mitchell, School of Nursing and Nutrition, James Cook University and The Australian Catholic University

Replacing the need to examine mortality of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in hamsters by using existing human data. 

 

 

MAWA Quinn Honours Research Scholarship

‘to support students undertaking honours research projects that do not use animals or animal products and with the specific intention of encouraging new scientists to advance the development, validation or application of non-animal methods of research'. 
Value: $10,000

2011 winners: 

Mr John Fox, Biomedical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology

Simulation of native circulatory feedback responses in a mechanical representation of the cardiovascular system to replace the use of an9imals in testing cardiovascular devices. 

 

MAWA Research and Development  Grants

2011 winners

Dr Richard Bradbury, Dr Alan Champion and Dr David Reid, School of Medicine, The University of Tasmania and Iron Metabolism Laboratyr, Queensland Institute of Medical Researcg

An amoeba co-culture assay alternative to mammalian models of bacterial virulence testing

Dr Scott Smid and Dr Rachel Gibson, Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide

Validation of a model of colon inflammation (colitis) using ex vivo human colonic mucosal explant tissue as a viable alternative to animal models of colitis. 

Assoc Prof Bfrett Lidbury, Dr Alice Richardson and Prof Simon Easteal. The John Curtin School of Medical Research. The Australian National University and the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering. The University of Canberra

Development of a Systems Framework Employing Bioinformatics, Human Data, Human Volunteers, and Genetic Analyses, to Replace Traditional Animal Model Preferences for Fundamental Biomedical Research. 

MAWA International Conference Bursaries

Awarded in the following fields: Human based neuroscience research, in-vitro studies and mathematical models

 

MAWA will announce new awards towards the end of 2011. 

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Voiceless Eureka Prize

www.voiceless.org.au
This prize forms part of the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prizes (Australia’s most prestigious science awards). It is awarded to ‘an individual or team for scientific research that has contributed, or has the potential to contribute to, animal protection’.
Value: $10,000.

2010 winner: Dr K-lynn Smith and Prof Chris Evans from the Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour, Macquarie University

Sentience in chickens

 

University of Sydney award for the promotion of animal friendly research

2011 winners

Prof Georges Grau, Department of Pathology, Sydney Medical School 

Method of studying cerebral malaria that avoids animal testing using in vitro model

Ms Meika Foster and Ass Prof Samir Sanman, School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney

Method of using human blood cells instead of animals in the study of zinc status in humans. 

 

Alternatives Research and Development Foundation

Jenkintown, PA, USA.
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