Jeffrey Bajramovic: ’The 3Rs Centre Utrecht aims to actively facilitate researchers’

Jeffrey Bajramovic has been the new head of the 3Rs Centre Utrecht (3RCU) since July 2022. His ambition for the 3RCU is to become an advocate and a centre of action for the 3Rs, by centralizing information and by facilitating researchers to take up new approach methods (NAMs). On 11 May, the 3RCU will organize a seminar to present Jeffrey and the plan of action for the centre. Where does your motivation to replace animal experiments come from?   Partly from personal experience, partly from conviction. During my PhD I was working in the field of multiple sclerosis research. While I was working on an in vitro model using human material, one of my colleagues was working on an in vivo mouse model. Her studies progressed with great difficulty, and she finally found out that this was because mice have an intrinsically different immune system than humans do.