Mitigating Animal Methods Bias in Grant Review, Tip #3: Provide robust justifications for your chosen method
Preempt biased reviews by describing your chosen method’s suitability, advantages over animals, and translational potential. Reviewers who prefer or expect to see animal-based methods will need to be convinced by robust justifications for nonanimal methods, including how it’s better to answer the specific research question than animals and its translational potential to improve human health.
✍ This week’s tip for researchers to mitigate #animalmethodsbias is focused on method justification—how can you demonstrate that #nonanimalmethods are the right choice for your research? 🧪
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