DVES Prize: An Award for Non-Animal Research

An Award for Non-Animal Research

Facing the lack of public funding and political will in favor of alternative methods to animal experimentation, Pro Anima Scientific Committee created the EthicScience Fund and Prize in 2013.

A strong objective: Participate in the development of research programs free of animal experimentation and based on the most advanced and effective scientific and technological knowledge.

Since its creation, the EthicScience Prize rewards leading research programs every two years.

Among the awarded programs: the development of a “mini-brain” based on stem cells to further research on Parkinson’s disease (LCSB); three-dimensional modeling of cancerous tumors using human tissue (Oncothéis / Epithelix laboratories); or even new synthetic skin models for testing chemical compounds (Atoxigen laboratory).

In 2023, for its 10th anniversary, the EthicScience Prize became the Descroix-Vernier EthicScience Prize.

Two institutions for a mutual goal

Promoting since 1989 non-animal methods for biomedical research and chemical risk assessment, the Pro Anima Scientific Committee is delighted to count on the support of the Descroix-Vernier Foundation.

In 2022, the two institutions were pleased to announce their alliance for the Descroix-Vernier EthicScience Prize, aiming at better spotlighting the innovations of human-centered non-animal research.

The Descroix-Vernier Foundation, which has been supporting many humanitarian, environmental and animal causes for decades and whose mission is to save lives, as many lives as possible, considers the challenges of non-animal research to be crucial.

For its founder, the philanthropic entrepreneur, Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier, it is urgent to highlight the work of Pro Anima and the scientists who work for a more ethical science:

Thanks to new technologies in research, animal exploitation is no longer an obligation. So it is unacceptable.

Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier
Fondation Descroix-Vernier

The Descroix-Vernier EthicScience Prize: an innovative prize

The Descroix-Vernier EthicScience Prize pursues the work of the EthicScience Prize and now rewards three scientific programs, each corresponding to the following categories:

“Innovation” and “Applicability”, with a significant endowment of 50,000 euros each.

In addition to these 2 awards, the “Jury Prize”, endowed with 10,000 euros. This prize aims to encourage promising research and/or a team with regard to the exceptional quality of its work.

The Descroix-Vernier EthicScience Prize therefore offers a total endowment of 110,000 euros: this is a first in France, in favor of non-animal research.

The next edition of the DVES Prize will take place in 2027.

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With regard to non-animal research, we must demonstrate without delay that we can do better and differently than with animal experimentation.

Christiane Laupie-Koechlin
Founder General Secretary of Pro Anima