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Professor Lisbeth E. Knudsen

Lisbeth is professor of Toxicology at the University of Copenhagen. She is a member of the board of The Danish 3R Center and received the Nordic Alternative Price 2006 for promoting development of alternatives to animal testing.

She is also the coordinator of the Danish in vitro toxicology network and president of the European Consensus Platform for 3R Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (ECOPA). ECOPA is based on the concept of consensus between the parties concerned, i.e. animal welfare, industry, academia and government institutions.

Lisbeth’s main areas of research are: toxicology, genotoxicology, biomonitoring of environmental and occupational exposures, alternatives to animal experiments, ethical aspects of genetic testing and biomonitoring.

Lisbeth is the study director of bachelor and master studies in Public Health Sciences at the Faculty of Health and Medicine at University of Copenhagen and teaches 3R in science, toxicology and environmental health.

Below is a video interview Lisbeth gave when she was a judge for the 2012 Prize.

Dr Pavel Poc

Pavel Poc is a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in the European Parliament.
Dr Gill Langley

Gill is an animal rights scientist and writer who specialises in non-animal alternatives to animal research and testing.
Professor Lisbeth E. Knudsen

Lisbeth is professor of Toxicology at the University of Copenhagen and a member of the board of The Danish 3R Center.
Dr Kelly BéruBé

Dr Kelly BéruBé is the Director of the Lung & Particle Research Group at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Borami Seo

Borami Seo is Policy Manager at Korea Animal Rights Advocates, working with policy makers to bring a ban on cosmetics animal testing.
Andrew Tyler

Andrew Tyler is the director of Animal Aid, Europe’s largest animal rights organisation and one of the first in the world.
Professor Thales Tréz

Thales is a biologist and full time professor at the Institute of Science and Techonology (Alfenas Federal University) in Brazil.
Troy Seidle

Troy Seidle is Director of Research & Toxicology for Humane Society International. He manages the AXLR8 project.
Pilar Badía

Pliar is the Lush Customer judge for this year’s Prize. Since 2010 she has run, together with other teachers, the Aula Animal project, where she organises conferences and workshops for other teachers.
Suzy Hill

Suzy has been selected as the Lush Staff Judge for the 2014 Prize. She has worked for Lush for the past two years, in both the stores and now in Customer Services.