1st workshop of this series entitled, “Techniques in Small Laboratory Animal Handling”

Introduction

The National Facility for Laboratory Animal Research and Care (NFLARC), International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), in collaboration with Sindh Innovation Research, and Education Network (SIREN), is organizing a series of lectures and workshops aimed to provide practical training to students and researchers to build capacity in handling small Laboratory Animals (SLA). In this context, it gives me an immense pleasure to invite you to the 1st workshop of this series entitled, “Techniques in Small Laboratory Animal Handling”, during August 19 and 20, 2022.

In biomedical research, experiments on SLA are routinely conducted which help researchers to device strategies for the advancement of human and animal health care. This indicates that the validity of scientific data largely depends upon the quality of the husbandry offered to these animals, along with expertise of the researchers performing the experiments. Attention to the principles of adequate animal husbandry and personnel training for appropriate experimental techniques is therefore important to achieve maximal benefit from laboratory animal use, and for assuring appropriate ethical conduct.

I hope this two-day workshop will help the participants to develop expertise in experiments involving SLA.