• Question: do you test on animals?

    Asked by 539drgj36 to Abid, Donna, Sanjib, Thomas, Avril on 9 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by caitlyn.
    • Photo: Avril Tucker

      Avril Tucker answered on 9 Jun 2017:

      Good question! The answer is no- I have no part in animal testing. However, I know that it does go on as it is part of research and development of new drugs, including new antibiotics.

    • Photo: Thomas Booth

      Thomas Booth answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      I don’t test on animals.

      In our lab we test the effects of our antibiotics directly on the bacteria, so no animals are involved!

    • Photo: Donna Johnson

      Donna Johnson answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      No, no animals, just bacteria.

    • Photo: Sanjib Bhakta

      Sanjib Bhakta answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      No, we don’t. In fact, in our lab we found an alternative way to test drugs on bacteria in a model system, to avoid testing them on animals. However, in antibiotic development often animal testing is used in validation process prior to human clinical trial studies.

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