CAAT Newsletter Vol. Winter 1990 Doerenkamp-Zbinden Award Recognizes Video Developer Charles E. Branch, B.M.E., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, was honored in late October for a video he developed as an alternative to live animal experimentation. Branch received the Hildegard Doerenkamp-Gerhard Zbinden Foundation Award for Realistic Animal Protection in Scientific Research. Va. Alan M. Goldberg, Ph.D., director of CAAT and a member of the Foundation's board of trustees, made the presentation. Branch was given the award for creating a teaching system consisting of a laser disk which records results of a number of cardiovascular tests on dogs.
Students interact with the help of a personal computer and have access to all data stored on disk.
They can perform experiments independently by drawing on the data provided by the program. Next year, the award will be given in the area of Alternatives for Animal Experimentation in the Neurosciences and Epilepsy Research. All rights reserved.