Invitations are now invited for this year's Dieter Lϋtticken Award.  Please see below for more information and the application form and procedure.  The deadline for all applications is 15th November 2008.  

With a prize fund of €20,000 (approximately £14,000), this prestigious annual award, sponsored by Intervet, was established in 2004 to help reduce the number of animals used in tests during the development and production of veterinary medicines. 

The Award, named after the committed researcher who guided and shaped Intervet’s R&D for more than a quarter of a century, is open to scientists or public institutions that have delivered excellent contributions to the 3R-concept – reducing, refining or replacing the use of animals in research, education and testing.  Intervet would like to see as broad a scope of applications as possible and entries can include residue testing, new toxicological methods, challenge test replacements or epidemiological studies focusing on the correlation of field data and protection of animals by vaccination, new epitope identification, genomics or proteomics and alternatives to production methods that use animal by-products or animals.

Previous winners of the award include:

• 2004: Professor Andrew Hemphill from the University of Bern for his outstanding research into the development and evaluation of in-vitro approaches for culture and investigation of helminthic and protozoan parasites, in particular Neospora caninum and Echinococcus mutilocularis.  
• 2006: Professor Mark Stevens from the Institute of Animal Health in the UK, whose laboratory has developed several animal models to study the pathogenesis of enteric bacterial infections of livestock and uses novel genetic methods to dissect the molecular basis of bacterial virulence.
• 2007: Professor George Gettingby from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland for his innovative statistical and epidemiological research methods in sea-lice treatments in salmon farming.

Intervet welcomes submissions from all scientists and life-science research institutions, excluding commercial organisations.