Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to send you an email highlighting this year’s Lush Prize. The Prize is
supported by the UK cosmetics company Lush and the organization Ethical
Consumer, and rewards financial prizes annually to individuals and
organizations working to replace animal testing in science, lobbying, and other
areas. This year’s prize is significant because, in addition to awards of
£200,000 for the usual annual categories, the sponsors also awarded the very
first “Black Box Prize” of £250,000 for outlining the first adverse outcome
pathway, for skin sensitization. The OECD and individual scientists split that
prize amount.
Please see below for more details on the winners.
Details for next year’s prizes will be released in April of 2016. Consider
nominations yourself or a colleague!
Regards,
Kristie
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Lush Prize News December 2015
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Dear friend
For those of you who couldn’t attend November's Lush Prize Conference, or
missed our social media updates, we are delighted to announce the winners of
the Lush Prize 2015.
Lush Prize judges this year decided to award the first ever Black Box
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This category gives the whole £250,000 fund for a key breakthrough in human
toxicity pathways research.
Using 21st century technology like genetics and computing, scientists have now
fully explained at a molecular level how a toxic chemical can enter the human
body and lead to an allergic skin reaction. This breakthrough moment marks the
first step into a future where a superior molecular science replaces the old,
imprecise, technology of testing on live animals in laboratories.
Thanks to extremely generous funding from Lush North America we were also able
to award £200,000 across the other five categories of prizes. So, the Lush
Prize this year has given £450,000 funding to initiatives around the world to
completely replace animal testing! These include research into body-on-a-chip
systems, replacement of foetal bovine serum, lobbying to change legislation and
undercover investigations.
Full details of all winners are on the Lush Prize
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Comedian Sara Pascoe hosted the Lush Prize Awards Ceremony
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The Conference was extremely well attended and the audience heard from this
year's winners and other invited speakers on the topic of Adverse Outcome
Pathways
Winners of the Lush Prize 2015:
Black Box Prize
The OECD’s Adverse Outcome Pathway programme, France: £150,000
David Basketter, UK: £25,000
Frank Gerberick, USA: £25,000 (Frank has declined the financial reward and
asked for it to be given to other projects to end animal testing)
Andreas Natsch and Roger Emter, Switzerland: £25,000
Terry Schultz, USA: £25,000
Lobbying Prize
Policy interventions promoting the use of alternatives
Mojo Mathers MP, New Zealand. Mojo declined the £10,000 financial reward and it
was used to support another Young Researcher winner
Public Awareness Prize
Policy interventions promoting the use of alternatives
SOKO Tierschutz
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Germany
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Beagle Freedom
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USA: £20,000
Science Prize
21st century Toxicology
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Switzerland
: £25,000
Prof Michael L. Shuler & Team, USA: £25,000
Training Prize
Training researchers in non-animal methods
PETA International Science Consortium
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Dmitry
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Ukraine: £25,000
Young Researcher Prize
Post-doctoral students specialising in alternative research (£10,000 each)
Laura Bray, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Germany
Jeremy Caplin, Hashemi Labs, Iowa State University, USA
Elena Kummer, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Bianca Marigliani, The Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ilka Maschmeyer, TissUse, Germany
Lena Smirnova, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, USA
Conference:
The Lush Prize Conference was a huge success, with keynote speakers on the
issue of Adverse Outcome Pathways and all of the winners discussing their work.
A video of the conference will be on our website soon, but for now you can see
the presentations
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Awards Evening:
Winners received their awards at a stunning awards ceremony, hosted by the
brilliant (and vegan!) comedian Sara Pascoe, who made the evening great fun.
Black Box winners were also delighted to be handed their prizes by Queen guitar
legend Dr Brian May, a strong advocate of animal rights.
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Nominations for next year’s Lush Prize will open in April 2016.
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