Welcome to a fascinating insight into one of Europe’s most modern and unique research facilities. The Astrid Fagraeus Laboratory is Scandinavia’s only laboratory housing primates and has recently become the first Swedish lab to achieve an AAALAC-accreditation. This tour will introduce you to our work with everything from mice to monkeys, as well as our ongoing research about infectious diseases, animal welfare and behavior studies and our experiences from GLP practices.
We’ll guide you around the facility, focusing on the areas that interest you most (please select your areas of interest when signing up) and we’ll do our best to answer all and every question you’ll have.
You are very welcome to the Astrid Fagraeus Laboratory at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
NOTE This workshop begins on Thursday morning
Leased bus leaves from the Waterfront to the AFL

According to the new directive, the 3Rs shall be implemented in all research (Art 38). This is no easy task, neither from a practical perspective, nor from an ethical one. How do we ensure that this requirement has been fulfilled? To what extent ought scientists to contribute to the development of alternative methods in their field of research? Another crucial dimension of implementation of the 3R lies in the decision-making process regarding a research protocol. The workshop will elaborate on transparency, decision criteria and the debated role of empathy in ethical decisions. In order to situate these ethical dimensions in a relevant and concrete context we will give examples on animal research often challenging the animal ethics evaluation - with various outcomes when it comes to decision: fasting and restricted diet.

How can the 3Rs be implemented in research involving fasting? Based on what criteria can a high degree of severity be judged justified? How can such decisions be communicated with the public? We cordially invite all participants to contribute with their views and experience in an engaging discussion on an important and challenging theme. .

During this workshop assessment of animal welfare using different parameters (animal based parameters such as behavior and resource based parameters such as housing, handling or care) will be discussed. Videoclips and photographs showing animals in different situations that could affect the welfare of the animals (housing, care, procedures, disease models etc) will be shown. The participants on the workshop will then actively perform evaluations of the animal welfare or impaired welfare using an interactive audience response system. This system enables the participants to compare evaluations from the whole group and discuss the results together. The workshop is aimed for scientists, veterinarians and technicians. The participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance that will merit for CPD credits.  

This workshop will focus on animal models subjected to painful procedures, where there is a known or suspected effect of analgesic treatment on the experimental data. The workshop consists of lectures and case studies in groups. The lectures will cover the theory of pain and analgesia; circumstances under which pain and/or analgesia may compromise the scientific objectives; and various examples of relevant models.
The group work will focus on actual cases, where it will be discussed to what extent the pain or analgesia may have any impact on the experimental data, and how this best can be circumvented. The workshop is aimed for scientists, veterinarians and technicians. The participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance that will merit for CPD credits.