{"id":75025,"date":"2016-10-14T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=05b8f365e5948d9fc997ff9620f3e412"},"modified":"2016-10-14T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:33:09","slug":"news-story-reappointment-to-the-animals-in-science-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75025","title":{"rendered":"News story: Reappointment to the Animals in Science Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-appointments-to-the-animals-in-science-committee\">recent recruitment of 7 new members<\/a>, the Animals in Science Committee (<abbr title=\"Animals in Science Committee\">ASC<\/abbr>) has reappointed the chair and 6 of its members to independently advise the government on the use of animals in research for a further 2 years. This brings the current complement of members to 14.<\/p>\n<p>Members were reappointed in light of their expertise in animal protection, research and ethics and in line with the needs of the current and forthcoming work program.<\/p>\n<p>The reappointed committee members are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr John Landers (chair), senior research fellow, Oxford University<\/li>\n<li>Mr Ken Applebee, Director of Biological Services, Kings College London<\/li>\n<li>Professor Gail Davies, Professor in Human Geography, University of Exeter<\/li>\n<li>Professor Malcolm Macleod, Professor of Neurology and Translational Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh<\/li>\n<li>Ms Anna Rowland, Assistant Director of Policy, Business Transformation and Safeguarding, fitness to practice, General Medical Council (GMC)<\/li>\n<li>Dr Gilly Stoddart, Head of Science, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/animals-in-science-committee\/about\/membership#biographies\">committee member biographies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chair and 6 members reappointed for further 2 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}