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The Research Defence Society is a in medicine. Its website says that it represents the interests of 5,000 researchers and institutions.

Its current executive director is Dr. Simon Festing .

One campaign to demonstrate the support for animal research within the scientific and medical community, is the co-signing of a petition in support of the use of animals in research called Declaration on Animals in Medical Research Declaration on animals in medical research . The original declaration occurred in 1990, its second variant in 2005. Over 500 British, and 200 non-British, scientists signed the declaration in the first month, including 3 Nobel laureates, 190 Fellows of the Royal Society and the Medical Royal Colleges and over 250 academic Professors.


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