Tony Benn chairs debate on animal experiments - 21st April

With:
Professor Tipu Aziz, Neurosurgeon, Oxford University
Dr Simon Festing, Executive Director, RDS
Dr Jarrod Bailey, Science Director, Europeans for Medical Progress
Professor Claude Reiss, Science Consultant, Europeans for Medical Progress

Is animal experimentation essential for medical progress or a serious hazard to human health? This is the key question to be addressed in what promises to be a lively discussion. The importance of this issue for the future of medicine cannot be overstated. Come to this important debate and find out why.

Europeans for Medical Progress (formerly Europeans For Medical Advancement) is an independent, non-profit-making organisation of scientists and medical professionals. Our goal is to protect human health by modernising medical research. We support mainstream science-based medical research and patient care. We focus on rigorous scientific analysis of animal experimentation to assess the balance of help or harm to human health.

There is overwhelming evidence that animal experiments provide results that, when applied to humans, can prove misleading or fatal. These tests exhaust precious research funding, waste valuable time, produce ineffective solutions, and delay progress toward human cures.

Our family and friends deserve the best medical research – help us put patients before profits.