Rethinking animals in research: Developing a novel ethical framework

目前的动物伦理学方法面临着解决动物研究中的重大问题的挑战。这些问题包括：对研究人员和动物的伤害，从动物到人类的结果转化不佳，导致治疗无效，以及未来研究努力方向不佳。这个项目通过开发一种创新的、经验丰富的动物伦理关系方法来应对这些挑战。新的方法将提供一个新的框架，将对人类和动物的伤害降至最低，并提高实验结果的质量。好处包括更符合伦理的动物研究实践，以及更有针对性地部署有限的研究资源。

Current approaches to animal ethics face challenges addressing significant problems in animal research. These problems include: harms to research workers and animals, poor translation of results from animals to humans leading to ineffective treatments and poorly directed future research efforts. This project addresses these challenges by developing an innovative, empirically-informed relational approach to animal ethics. The new approach will deliver a novel framework that minimises harms to humans and animals, and improves the quality of results obtained from experiments. Benefits include a more ethically robust practice of animal research and more targeted deployment of finite research resources.