Christiane Laupie-Koechlin

Former administrator of the SPA, former communications director and having worked with European parliamentarians on the adoption of the 1986 directive (86/609/EEC) which aimed to harmonize national legislation concerning the protection of animals used for certain experimental purposes , Christiane Laupie-Koechlin created Pro Anima in 1989 with the support of Professor Théodore Monod and François d’Harcourt, honorary deputy of the National Assembly. Its dual ethical and scientific objective : to do things better and differently than with animal experimentation.

For 35 years, Pro Anima has contributed to greater recognition of non-animal methods in order to enable a more reliable evaluation of chemical substances including medicines.