Overview of New Approach Methodologies for scientific research

This event will set the scene of current biomedical research practises:

- Why animal experiments are failing drug development?

- How New Approach Methodologies (NAMs ) can overcome these limits?

Dr Lilas Courtot from Animal Free Research UK will provide an overview of different NAMs and their relevance to human diseases and drug development.

Presenter: Dr Lilas Courtot - Animal Free Research UK

Event Type: Seminar plus Q&A

Duration: 45 minutes

Biography

Lilas is trained as a biomedical engineer and completed her PhD in Cancer Research at the Cancer Research Centre of Toulouse, in France. She started a postdoctoral position at the University College of London in 2020, but quickly decided to take a step back from academia. In 2021, she started to work for Animal Free Research UK. As a science manager in this charity, her role is to support biomedical scientists in their journey towards using more human-relevant technologies that will help finding new or better treatments for human diseases.