Commentary provided by Claudia Kurreck (Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) The performance of audits and assessments is always a sensitive issue in the academic preclinical research environment. The most important argument for not conducting audits in the scientific community has been that audits would …
At the presentation of the ECNP Negative Data Award (see above), there was an interesting point made by one of the presenters – about the important role of large multi-national multi-lab collaboration projects for the scientific progress. More specifically, it was emphasized that initiatives such as …
Pre-clinical animal research is typically based on single-laboratory studies conducted under highly standardized conditions. However, a new study published by Bernhard Voelkl, Lucile Vogt, Emily S. Sena and Hanno Würbel from the Universities of Bern and Edinburgh showed that such approach risks producing results that are …
F1000 Research has published an article entitled “In search of the mechanisms of ketamine’s antidepressant effects: How robust is the evidence behind the mTor activation hypothesis” co-authored by PAASP’s managing partner Anton Bespalov, together with colleagues from AbbVie, Servier, Pfizer and Alkermes. Independently of each other, …
