Foundation for Biomedical Research
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Most cures have happened as a direct result of biomedical research, saving human and animal lives.
Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
FBR’s How Medicines Are Made brochure is a free resource that explains how lifesaving medicines are developed, including the role of animal models. 📖 Browse it online: https://t.co/RejVoChvGy 🔵 Support our work: https://t.co/7EQ01kNQCg Donations help us share this resource
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🦃 This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the science that keeps families and their pets healthy. If you believe in animal research that saves lives, please consider supporting FBR today. Happy Thanksgiving! Make a gift: https://t.co/MwiBjycGeQ
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Every antibiotic we rely on, from penicillin to today’s cutting-edge therapies, was made possible by research that includes animals. Before antibiotics, infection was often a death sentence. Today, antibiotics save lives thanks to animal research. This week, we celebrate the
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📢A new American Journal of Primatology article raises questions about the accuracy of long-tailed macaque population estimates, challenging claims they are endangered. Read NABR’s press release:
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/PRNewswire/ -- A recent article published in the American Journal of Primatology criticizes work relied upon by the International Union for Conservation of...
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Long-tailed macaques are vital to human health — advancing medicine, immunology & cancer research. About 12,500 new drugs are in preclinical development globally, most requiring NHPs for testing. Read NABR’s comment on IUCN’s claim LTMs are endangered:
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This #WorldMentalHealthDay, we’re reminded that treatments for depression, anxiety and PTSD exist today thanks to discoveries made with animal research. Science brings hope and better mental health to millions.
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ICYMI: The 2025 Golden Goose Awards honored researchers whose work with animals and other unexpected studies led to major medical breakthroughs. From insights with frogs that advanced genetic disease diagnosis to research that helped develop lifesaving chemotherapy treatments,
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell for discovering how the immune system is kept in check. 🔗 https://t.co/ITM3967lND Their discoveries, which have paved the way for many treatments for #cancer and
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three researchers — Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell — for discovering how the immune system is kept in check, based...
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🐭 Mice made the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine possible! Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi studied mice to uncover how the Foxp3 gene and regulatory T cells prevent the immune system from attacking the body — a discovery that’s transforming
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Animal research has led to breakthroughs like the gene therapy that offered 11-month-old Max new hope, after studies with mice and monkeys. For 7-year-old Lia, nonhuman primate models may one day make a treatment for Usher syndrome possible. For patients, the road to new cures
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September 18 is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. In the 1980s, an HIV diagnosis was often a death sentence. Today, thanks to antiretroviral therapies, people living with HIV can live long, healthy lives — and more than half are now over age 50. This would not have
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Increased epigenetic stability in monkeys 👏
Scientists Reversed Aging in Monkeys. Humans Could Be Next Scientists demonstrated that senescence resistant mesenchymal progenitor cells (SRCs), engineered with the longevity gene FOXO3, can not only halt aging but partially reverse it in aged macaques. 👀 Intravenous SRC
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🎉Congratulations to the 2025 @LaskerFDN award winners! Several advanced their science with the help of animal research, from frog oocytes to pig models — paving the way for life-saving therapies. 👉 Read more on the FBR blog. https://t.co/hnENOggyyR
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Learn how 2025 Lasker Award winners used animal research to advance biomedical discoveries and develop life-saving therapies like Trikafta®.
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“One area where we’re working is in models. We’ve developed a pig model of cystic fibrosis. When the pigs get disease, it looks very much like human CF. We’re using these models to ask what would happen if we developed successful gene therapy.” -Michael J. Welsh, 2025 Lasker
Michael Welsh of @uiowa, a winner of the @LaskerFDN Clinical Medical Research Award, reflects on his decades of work unraveling #CysticFibrosis and how new therapies have transformed patients’ lives. https://t.co/fP2ZGV7P5L
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Big news in biomedical research! The 2025 Lasker Awards — often called “America’s Nobels” — honor groundbreaking medical discoveries. Several of this year’s awardees advanced their science with the help of animal research. 🐸Dirk Görlich (Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research
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Professor Cory Miller, PhD, in The Wall Street Journal explains why nonhuman primates are essential to advancing science. From AI-powered discoveries to lifesaving medical breakthroughs, research with animals continues to save and improve lives. 🧠🐒 Read more 👉
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Neuroscience research on primates will help us learn how to build an efficient thinking machine.
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On World Breast Cancer Research Day, we honor the breakthroughs that save lives — and the essential role animal research plays in developing breast cancer treatments. #BreastCancerResearch #AnimalResearchSavesLives
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🧠New hope for Alzheimer’s: A drug that clears toxic brain tangles has shown promise in early trials. This breakthrough builds on decades of research with animal models to understand tau proteins and test treatments. 📖Read more: https://t.co/p5gFJryjpE
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Nature - Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline.
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Breakthroughs like this start with animal research. 🐭🔬 #AnimalResearchSavesLives #MSresearch
Scientists just cracked the multiple sclerosis code after decades of searching. Two specific gut bacteria are triggering the disease, and they've proven it using identical twins and mice. This changes everything we know about MS:
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🧪FBR’s groundbreaking public polling project is nearly complete, and the insights will help us better defend and promote lifesaving animal research. Help us turn this data into action. 💙Donate today: https://t.co/MnLgtYObhe
#SupportScience #AnimalResearchMatters
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