3RCC Award Interview

To recognize his outstanding contribution to the promotion of the 3Rs principle, the Swiss 3RCC presented its 2020 Young 3Rs Investigator Award to PhD student Joseph Scarborough for his work in Prof. Urs Meyer’s laboratory at the Institute of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich. Scarborough developed a novel method (MDA) to administer pharmaceutical substances to mice with a sweetened solution using a small pipette, thus motivating the animals to voluntarily take the pharmaceutical substances. This MDA method development was awarded for its reduction of the animals' stress, for improving their welfare, and therefore also for the quality of study results. In this video, Prof Urs Meyer explains the method, its benefits, and its impact on refinement.