Top ten universities conduct a third of all UK animal research

The ten UK universities who do the most world-leading biomedical research have announced their animal research statistics, revealing that they collectively conducted a third of all UK animal research in 2015. The top ten institutions conduct more than two thirds of all UK university animal research between them, completing a combined total of 1.37 million procedures. Over 99% of these procedures were carried out on rodents or fish, and in line with national data they were roughly evenly split between experiments and the breeding of genetically modified animals. The ten universities are listed below alongside the total number of procedures that they carried out in 2015. Each institution's name links to a breakdown of their individual animal research statistics. The universities employ more than 90,000 staff between them, and as you would expect the larger institutions tend to conduct the most animal research. All universities are committed to the '3Rs' of replacement, reduction and refinement.