From Mustafa.Khokha at cshs.org Fri Jul 11 11:28:46 2025 From: Mustafa.Khokha at cshs.org (Khokha, Mustafa, M.D.) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:28:46 +0000 Subject: [Xenopus] NIH Policy on Animal Research - Please Comment by July 14 Message-ID: Colleagues, As many of you know, biomedical science in the US has recently been challenging. The NIH just announced an intent to move away from ?outdated animal models? towards research in humans (human subjects, human cells, etc) and other non-animal models (NAMs) such as computer simulation. Importantly, we have a short window to provide comment. DUE by July 14 2025 https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-meetings-conferences-and-workshops/fda-nih-workshop-reducing-animal-testing-07072025 There is a video of the entire workshop ? the NIH relevant part is at the 2hr38min mark. Comment box is at the bottom. Also Xenbase has put up a nice page with Carol?s editorials on the importance of animal research. https://www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNewsRead.do?id=1021 Please we strongly encourage you to provide comments. Also more comments is better as that are likely to have a larger impact. One major challenge is that the specifics of such a policy are not clear. Carol and I just met with NICHD staff, and they have an ?optimistic? view but can?t answer any of our specific questions ? they just don?t know. So providing these comments to the link above are important. We can make a difference by highlighting the terrible impact to biomedical science if animal models are no longer pursued. Mustafa Khokha, International Xenopus Board, President Carol LaBonne, SDB President IMPORTANT WARNING: This message is intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential, the disclosure of which is governed by applicable law. 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The NIH just announced an intent to move away from ?outdated animal models? towards research in humans (human subjects, human cells, etc) and other non-animal models (NAMs) such as computer simulation. Importantly, we have a short window to provide comment. DUE by July 14 2025 https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-meetings-conferences-and-workshops/fda-nih-workshop-reducing-animal-testing-07072025 There is a video of the entire workshop ? the NIH relevant part is at the 2hr38min mark. Comment box is at the bottom. Also Xenbase has put up a nice page with Carol?s editorials on the importance of animal research. https://www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNewsRead.do?id=1021 Please we strongly encourage you to provide comments. Also more comments is better as that are likely to have a larger impact. One major challenge is that the specifics of such a policy are not clear. Carol and I just met with NICHD staff, and they have an ?optimistic? view but can?t answer any of our specific questions ? they just don?t know. So providing these comments to the link above are important. We can make a difference by highlighting the terrible impact to biomedical science if animal models are no longer pursued. Mustafa Khokha, International Xenopus Board, President Carol LaBonne, SDB President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mbl.edu/pipermail/xenopus/attachments/20250711/87528d84/attachment-0001.html From c.a.softley at keele.ac.uk Thu Jul 31 12:27:20 2025 From: c.a.softley at keele.ac.uk (Charlie Softley-Brown) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:27:20 +0000 Subject: [Xenopus] Xenopus PhD position open Message-ID: Good afternoon, Please share with students etc ? I have a PhD position open in my lab at Keele University (UK) working with Xenopus laevis. It is self-funded, but comes with a fee reduction and with a travel and consumables budget funded by the charity Alstr?m Syndrome UK. This will be studying the ultra-rare multi-organ genetic condition Alstr?m Syndrome in Xenopus laevis and Schmidtea mediterranea (aquatic flatworms): more info in the link. If you might be interested, feel free to email to arrange an informal chat. 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