Animal Study Registry

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The Animal Study Registry (Register for Animal Experiments ) is a register for animal experiments opened on January 7, 2019 at the German Center for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R). It is an integral part of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).

Objective and content

The registration of animal experiments has the following advantages: The planning of an experiment becomes more well thought-out and more targeted, the results are comprehensible and raise the scientific standard. Animal experiments can be saved because all studies would now be published. Even those whose results sound uncomfortable. This results in a more comprehensive and "unadorned" picture. This avoids wrong turns in research.

Last but not least, patients benefit from a register, as knowledge from animal experiments is the basis for drug tests, for example. The more resilient this foundation, the greater the chances of success and the lower the risk of complications and side effects. This is also the reason that databases for “clinical” trials on humans have long been established. Registration is a prerequisite for receiving funding or submitting medicinal products for approval. With the register for animal experiments, a high level is now also aimed at for “pre-clinical” research.

The entries in the Animal Study Registry describe, for example, the statistical methods chosen for the experiment. The register is freely accessible.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BfR: Register for Animal Experiments. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .