Expert Group for Laboratory Animal Science

The Expert Group for Laboratory Animal Science investigates issues about laboratory animals and advises us at the Swedish Research Council. The Expert Group has twelve members with expertise within research using experiments on animals and ethics.

Contributes with knowledge and advice

The Expert Group for Laboratory Animal Science provides knowledge and advice on issues regarding laboratory animals within the Swedish Research Council's various assignments. The group

  • produces various documentation and gives advice to us, for example with regard to
  • call texts for grants, for example for the development of methods for the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal experiments, 3R
  • statements, standpoints or guidelines concerning laboratory animals
  • publications within the area of laboratory animals
  • communication efforts within the area of laboratory animals

The Expert Group also monitors, analyses and informs about laboratory animals in a national and international perspective and can represent the Swedish Research Council in various contexts where issues relating to laboratory animals are discussed.

Composition of the Expert Group

The Expert Group for Laboratory Animal Science has eleven members appointed by the Swedish Research Council's Scientific Council for Medicine and Health. The members must together have expertise in research using laboratory animals and in ethics. Six of the members are appointed on the basis of proposals from Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs) that conduct research in medicine, three based on proposals of from Swedish HEIs that conduct research in science, and one based on a proposal from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU.

Members 2026–2028

Name

Title

Organisation

Malin Fex (chair)

Docent i Experimental metabolism

Lund University

Frida Lundmark

Expert

The Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry

(LIF)

Jordi Altimiras

Professor of physiology

Linköping University

Elisabet Andersson

 

Docent, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology

Karolinska Institutet

Albin Gräns

 

Docent, Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Maria Lindskog

Docent, senior lecturer, Department of Medical Cell Biology

Uppsala University

Elin Manell

 

Doktor, Veterinary specialist in Laboratory Animal Medicine (Dipl. ECLAM)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Kristofer F Nilsson

Associate professor in Medical Science (Surgical sciences)

Örebro University

Johan Ruud


Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology

 

University of Gothenburg

Björn Ole Schröder

 

Docent, Department of Molecular Biology: the interaction between diet, gut microbiota and mucosal barrier function

Umeå University

Anna-Lena Spetz

Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Wenner-Gren Institute

Stockholm University

Alexandra Stubelius

Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences

Chalmers University of Technology



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