RE: Kirkstall Ltd - News flow15 Nov 2016 19:34
Is, they certainly did win the top prize, awarded Friday night on the 11th, great work Kirkstall,.....GL S
We are delighted to announce that on Friday night (11th November 2017) at LSO ST Luke’s, Kirkstall were announced as winners of the Lush Prize Award for training, in recognition of the pioneering work that we are doing with both academic and industry research professionals worldwide.
A spokesperson for The Lush Prize commented “Kirkstall Ltd has been awarded the training prize for their commitment to installing their passion and eagerness for replacing animal testing into the mind-sets of researchers worldwide. Their training workshops have shown to be are a very effective way of changing researchers’ perspectives on animal replacement and in vitro testing worldwide. Having already reached over 600 scientists, we hope that the recognition gained from this award along with the prize fund will help Kirkstall increase the reach and impact of their training efforts and work towards the replacement of animal testing.”
Shortly after accepting the award, which comes with a £25’000 prize fund, Kirkstall CEO Dr. J. Malcolm Wilkinson commented, “We believe passionately in the need to replace animals in many aspects of medical research and we are obviously delighted to have won this prestigious award and have the value of our efforts acknowledged by the Lush Prize.”.”
Malcolm continued, “Our collaborators in academia and industry are doing world leading science using our Quasi Vivo® system and this is demonstrating that there are alternatives which offer far superior human relevance than the use of animals. We will use the prize money to expand our training workshops worldwide, demonstrating the latest in vitro research techniques and encouraging more and more scientists to work on alternatives to animals.”
Now in its fifth year, the Lush Prize has awarded £1.2 million in prizes, aiming to bring forward the day when safety testing takes place without the use of animals.
After a record number of nominations, 55 projects and scientists from 21 countries were shortlisted for 2016.
The Lush Prize brings together a variety of projects – science, regulatory lobbying and public awareness campaigns – that are required to replace cruel and unreliable animal testing with 21st century humane and relevant science.
A joint project between cosmetics company Lush and research group Ethical Consumer, the prize is designed to drive forward the complete replacement of animals in experiments, particularly in toxicology (chemical testing) research.
If you would like to find out more information about our training workshops, please view our dedicated Quasi Vivo® training page or contact us.
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