As a founding member of the Swiss 3R competence center (3RCC), EPFL is committed to adopting best practices in terms of 3Rs. In addition, EPFL aims to be innovative and active within the Swiss 3Rs community.
The institute’s 3Rs coordinator is available for all your questions, suggestions and ideas, as well as to assist you in applying for funding from the 3RCC or other 3R-focused organizations.
This program was established in 2020 and aims to optimize the exchange of organs or live animals within EPFL. Scientists who perform an organ collection can “offer” other organs to EPFL researchers. Other researchers are informed via a mailing list or this website and can recover a fresh cadaver for extraction of their organ(s) of interest. Additionally, we also try to reallocate surplus animals when possible. If you have surplus animals (preferably young, wild-type animals) that you will not use, please inform us and we will offer them to scientists who could take them under their own experimental license.
Please contact our 3R coordinator Alexandre Widmer for more details, to offer organs and live animals, or to be added to the mailing list.