By: Anton Bespalov
Ten years later: Are we there yet?
December 24, 2025PAASP was founded in November 2015 to provide services related to rigor in nonregulated biomedical research – with a mission to…
Read MoreEQIPD / PAASP Newsletter December 2025
December 24, 2025The current issue of our newsletter is special as this is issue no. 50 and it marks the 10th anniversary of PAASP! Today we share with…
Read MoreQuestionable data in neurodegeneration research: A coincidence?
December 23, 2025If you have not read the book “Doctored” by Charles Piller (here), you may want to have a look at the…
Read MoreQuality management initiatives: Economic perspective
December 19, 2025In July 2025, the U.S. FDA published a white paper on how strategic investments in quality management initiatives in the pharmaceutical…
Read MoreAssessment of benefit of animal research
December 19, 2025Unless and until we have validated non-animal alternative methods available for routine use, the involvement of animals in research is required…
Read MoreValuable resource: Sex as a biological variable
December 19, 2025Several years ago, we were part of an NIH-funded consortium that developed training materials to provide practical guidance to preclinical researchers…
Read MoreGood Research Practice: Why not?
December 18, 2025This is indeed the central theme of the current newsletter and this has been the central theme in our discussions with…
Read MoreTo ARRIVE or not: Ticking (wrong) boxes
December 17, 2025Every now and then we read publications stating that experiments “were conducted according to ARRIVE guidelines”. In most cases, such statements suggest that…
Read MoreThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet
December 9, 2025Thus spoke Aristotle … and so did we when launching the online course on Good Research Practice in summer 2025 that…
Read MorePAASP is now on Mastodon!
March 20, 2025We’re excited to join the Mastodon community. Follow us to explore and discuss topics around research reproducibility, preclinical quality, and translational science. We’ll share…
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