by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND The behavioral assessment of anhedonia, motivation and attention represents a cornerstone of behavioral neuroscience, but is stressful and tedious for both, the involved animals and researchers. We will develop and promote protocols for assessing these...
by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND Pre-operative fasting is considered a deviation from normal husbandry conditions and always requires a permission within the animal experimental license. Current pre-operative fasting recommendation in sheep however are rather vague and not evidence-based....
by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND Functional assessment of PNET biology has been hindered by the paucity of relevant human models. Only a handful of authentic human PNET cell lines are currently available, and studies relying on genetic and xenograft mouse models are time and cost intensive...
by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND Current Lung on-chip (LOC) models are promising but lack resident immune cells especially macrophages. Our main project of Lung-Microbiota on-chip (LMOC) aims to (i) reduce animal experiments (short-term) and (ii) completely replace murine models of lung...
by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND During general anaesthesia, the brain does not perceive pain, but the spinal cord could still encode and elaborate the stimulus (nociception). Not recognising nociception is detrimental during general anaesthesia and can play a pivotal role in the...
