The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing is an academic center affiliated with the Division of Toxicological Sciences in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

CAAT Awards

Animal Welfare Enhancement Awards

Charles River Laboratories' Excellence in Refinement Award

Sponsored by Charles River Laboratories, in cooperation with CAAT, this award will honor an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the development, promotion, and/or implementation of refinement alternatives. This award includes $5,000 to further the recipient's scientific endeavors.

2005 Charles River Laboratories Excellence in Refinement Awards

2007 Charles River Laboratories Excellence in Refinement Awards

Recognition Award

This award, presented at every World Congress, honors an individual or organization who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of the 3Rs, the development of alternative methods, or the field of in vitro science.

Henry Spira Award

This award was established in 1999 to honor the memory of Henry Spira, a pioneer in the animal rights' movement whose campaign for the use of alternative methods led to the founding of CAAT. It was created to honor animal activists in the animal welfare, protection, or rights' movements who work to achieve progress through dialogue and collaboration. The Spira Award will not be presented in 2007. It will now be awarded every four years, beginning in 2009.

Selection Criteria

Founders' Award