2022 Prize Winners

We are delighted to announce 10 winning projects, organisations and scientists from 8 nations. They share a prize fund of £250,000.

We also have two prizes with non-financial awards, and are pleased to recognise one Andrew Tyler Award winner, and three Political Achievement award winners.

Details and introductory videos to all winners are below, and you can download the Awards brochure (PDF 5.8MB) which includes profiles of each winner.

 
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LOBBYING PRIZE

 
The New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society (NZAVS)
Aotearoa/New Zealand
nzavs.org.nz/
£50,000
Project: Removal of the social license of the notorious Forced Swim Test in NZ.

 

 

PUBLIC AWARENESS PRIZE (Current Projects)

 
Ms Carlota Saorsa & Dr Carlos Contreras
Spain
£50,000
Project: Undercover investigation at Vivotecnia laboratory.

 

 

SCIENCE PRIZE

 
The Acute Systemic Toxicity team within RTI International
USA
£50,000
Project: Mapping mechanistic pathways of acute oral systemic toxicity using chemical structure and bioactivity measurements.

 

 

TRAINING PRIZES

 
Ärzte gegen Tierversuche e.V.
https://www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de/
Germany
£25,000
Project: NAT-Database: Raising public awareness for Non-Animal Technologies to promote a human-based research generating human-relevant results.

 

Prof.dr. Pamela Bejdić
University of Sarajevo Veterinary Facility, Bosnia and Herzegovina
£25,000
Project: Dual Education System as a New Tool for Improving Practical Skills and Vocational Training of Veterinary Medicine Students.

 

 

YOUNG RESEARCHER PRIZES

 
Dr Arthur de Carvalho e Silva
University of Birmingham, UK
£10,000
Project: Integrating physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modelling and ‘omics data to derive health-based guidance values for perfluorinated chemicals.


 

Dr Sudeep Joshi
The Francis Crick Institute and King’s College London, UK
£10,000
Project: A robotic process automation system for biomanufacturing animal-free in-vitro 3D tissue and organoid models for drug screening.


 

Dr Shagun Krishna
National Toxicology Program (DNTP), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), USA
£10,000
Project: Computational Cardiotoxicology: Building an AI-assisted alternative method-based toxicity screening pipeline.


 

Prof. Dr. Francesca Grisoni
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
£10,000
Project: Combining artificial intelligence and human organoids for animal-free drug discovery: towards a paradigm shift.


 

Mr Artur Silva
Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
£10,000
Project: Lung-sens-on-a-chip model for mechanistic assessment of chemically-induced pulmonary sensitization: Providing building blocks for the respiratory allergy AOP.


 

 

ANDREW TYLER AWARD

 
Dr Gill Langley
UK

 

POLITICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

 
Jytte Guteland MP
Social Democrats, Sweden

 

Tilly Metz MEP
Greens, Luxembourg


 

In-soon Nam
National Assembly, South Korea