Dr Hadwen Trust

The Dr Hadwen Trust (Hitchin Herts SG5 2DY UK) is the UK’s leading medical research charity that funds and promotes exclusively non-animal techniques to replace animal experiments. Its vital work benefits humans with the development of more relevant and reliable science whilst also benefiting laboratory animals. The Trust believes that excellence in medical research can and should be pursued without animal experiments. Registered charity number 261096 established 1970.

The Trust's portfolio of high-quality, peer-reviewed and innovative research combines strict ethical principles with scientific excellence, and has involved projects in a range of fields including epilepsy, cancer, meningitis, asthma, Multiple sclerosis, diabetes, drug testing, arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, lung injury, whooping cough, vaccine testing, dentistry, heart disease, tropical illness, fetal development and pregnancy, brain tumours and AIDS.

The Dr Hadwen Trust is internationally recognised as a leading authority on replacing animal experiments and actively promotes the concept and practice of non-animal research through publications, workshops, debates and the media. Its Scientific Director, Dr Gill Langley, served for eight years as a member of the British government’s Animal Procedures Committee which advises the Home Secretary on animal experimentation matters. She has also advised the government on the introduction of the new EU chemicals legislation (REACH), and has been an invited expert on initiatives of the European Commission and of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Dr Langley currently represents the Dr Hadwen Trust as a member of the Replacement Advisory Group of the British National Centre for the Three Rs (Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of animals in research).