VICTORY Utrecht professor wins award for developing alternatives to lab animal testing

On 14 November, Prof. Bas Blaauboer will be presented with the Willy van Heumen Prize by the Alternatives for Laboratory Animals Stimulus Fund Foundation. The award will include a prize of 25,000 Euros. Prof. Hans Clevers, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), will present the award.

Prof. Blaauboer is Professor of Alternatives to Animal Testing in Toxicological Risk Assessment at Utrecht University’s Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences. This chair was endowed by the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation. He will receive the Willy van Heumen prize for his entire body of work, involving the 3 R’s of laboratory animal testing – replacement, reduction and refinement.

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