Navigating the complexities of working with and talking about animals in research
Professor Robin Lovell-Badge delivered the 87th Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture to invited guests at the Francis Crick Institute, London, the latest in a long line of highly distinguished scientists who have made exceptional contributions in the world of animal research.
The lecture, entitled Navigating the complexities of working with and talking about animals in research, covered Prof Lovell-Badge’s ground-breaking work in the discovery of the SRY gene mechanism for embryonic sex determination and the role of the SOX family of genes in sexual differentiation and its disorders. Laboratory animals were central to all of this extraordinary work. Prof Lovell-Badge described how circumstances conspired to bring him into public view as one of the country’s most outspoken advocates for humane animal research, making a huge contribution over the course of a long career towards better public understanding and the creation of a safer, saner world for animal researchers and technologists everywhere.
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