Last modified on Mon 5 Apr 2021 00.08 EDT
Medical charities have expressed dismay at the UK government’s failure to act over hundreds of millions of pounds of research that is at risk because of the catastrophic impact of Covid on fundraising.
With charity shops closed and fundraising events cancelled, medical charities have been forced to cut more than 40% of their research spending in the past year, and have told institutions that more cuts will follow.
In an 11th hour deal last week, the government announced £250m to help pay for the UK’s association with Horizon Europe, an international, seven-year research programme. But leading scientific institutions still face cuts of more than 20% because of the collapse in medical charity funding.
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Britain must embrace the high-tech alternatives to animal testing
Three million animals are used in research in this country each year. That doesn t have to be the case
18 December 2020 • 6:00pm
Each and every front-line worker in the fight to repel and defeat Covid-19 deserves to be in our thoughts this Christmas. So do the unknown number of animals – some we consider pets - who have suffered and died in the unprecedented quest for knowledge about the virus and a vaccine. Mice, cats, macaque monkeys, ferrets, hamsters, dogs and even horses have been used in the race to allow us back to our pre-lockdown freedoms.