Advisory Board «Research Involving Animals UZH»
The Advisory Board «Research with Animals UZH»(short: Advisory Board) reports directly to the Vice President Research and consists of representatives of UZH interests as well as internal and external experts who advise the Vice-Rector Research in the areas of animal husbandry, animal welfare, animal experiments and 3R.
The Faculties of Medicine, Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Vetsuisse are represented on the Advisory Board by one or two user representatives of the faculties. The user representatives of the faculties are nominated by their deans and appointed by the Vice-Rector Research for two years. Upon request, the deans may nominate an alternate.The external experts are appointed individually by the Vice President Research. In addition to the representatives of the faculties, the Vice President Research may appoint other internal experts as members or invite them to individual meetings as guests.
Contact
Members and permanent guests
External Members Dr. rer. nat. Boris Jerchow (Head Vivarium Operations, Novartis Pharma AG) Dr. Xavier Warot (Swiss Animal Facilities Network) Dr. Philippe Bugnon (Swiss Network on Education in Laboratory Animal Science)
Permanent guests Dr. Michaela Thallmair (Head of Animal Welfare & 3R UZH)
Dr. Gregor Fischer (Head of LASC UZH)