Franz Paul Gruber
Franz Paul Gruber (born November 27, 1942 in Aschau im Chiemgau ) is a German veterinarian .
Career
After finishing school in Rosenheim in Munich , Gruber studied biology , chemistry and veterinary medicine . He passed the state examination in veterinary medicine in 1967 and obtained his doctorate in 1969. med. vet. Between 1967 and 1969 Franz Gruber worked as a practical veterinarian in Upper Bavaria, from March 1969 he worked as a research assistant and assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin in the Institute for Laboratory Animal Science. He passed the veterinary examination in 1974 and received his habilitation in 1977 . In the same year Gruber began planning and executing the animal research facility at the University of Konstanz . In 1978 he completed his habilitation in zoology at the University of Konstanz (Dr. habil.). In 1985, the new animal research facility, which Gruber headed as Academic Director until 1993, from 1987 he also had the function of animal welfare officer , at the same time he was appointed to the animal experimentation commission of the Freiburg regional council, of which he is still a member.
Gruber has been married to the art historian Ursula Grashey since 1969, and their son Jonas was born in 1979.
Focus of work
Gruber has been working on alternatives to animal experiments since 1982 . Since 1986 he has been working regularly for the magazine ALTEX (“Alternatives to Animal Experiments”). In 1993 he took over the editor-in-chief of the magazine and provided scientific advice to the fund for animal-free research and moved to Zurich . Gruber has been President of the Doerenkamp Zbinden Foundation in Zurich since 2005 . The foundation has financed a chair for alternative methods at the University of Konstanz for 10 years since 2006. Further professorships were founded at Utrecht University (2008), Geneva (2009), Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (2009) and Bharathidasan University in Tiruchirappalli , India (2009).
In many book contributions and individual publications, Gruber deals with the conflict field of animal experiments in the human-animal relationship. He is a member of several commissions for the scientific evaluation of alternative methods (3R Research Foundation, Bern, set Foundation , Frankfurt, Egon Naef Foundation, Geneva).
The journal ALTEX has been the official organ of the following organizations since 2009: CAAT (Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore), EUSAAT (European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Vienna), t4 (transatlantic think tank of toxicology, Baltimore, Konstanz, Utrecht) and the Doerenkamp-Zbinden chairs in Germany, India, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA.
Fonts
- Studies to determine immunoglobulin levels using the example of normal, gnotobiotic and conventionalized chicks . Munich, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, dissertation from July 26, 1968.
- Immunology of laboratory animals. A contribution to the characterization of immunological models. Parey, Berlin, Hamburg 1975.
- Franz Paul Gruber et al .: Alternatives to animal experimentation in basic research. Elsevier, Heidelberg 2004 (ALTEX Vol. 21 (2004), Suppl. 1).
- as editor
- Franz Paul Gruber, Horst Spielmann (ed.): Alternatives to animal experiments. Scientific challenge and perspectives . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Berlin [u. a.] 1996, ISBN 3-86025-195-3 .
- Franz Paul Gruber et al. (Ed.): Use of animals in research. A science - society controversy? Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg 2002 (ALTEX Volume 19 (2002), Suppl. 2).
- Franz Paul Gruber et al. (Ed.): 5th world congress on alternatives and animal use in the life sciences. August 21-25, 2005, Berlin, Germany. Elsevier, Heidelberg 2006 (ALTEX, special volume 23).
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| SURNAME | Gruber, Franz Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German veterinarian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschau im Chiemgau |