A leader in preventive medicine, nutrition, and research, Neal D. Barnard, MD founded and remains the director of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in 1985. He has led key research studies to improve the health of people with diabetes, obesity, lipid disorders, and other serious health problems, and to improve nutrition in schools and in the workplace.
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Jerzy Buzek
Antidote Europe informs the new president of the European Parliament of the human health danger of bisphenol A
Margaret Clotworthy
Dr Clotworthy was accepted as a PhD student at the renowned Medical Research Council Lab of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, where she met many remarkable scientists whilst investigating the role of membrane cycling in cell movement, using a microscopic slime mould found in the soil, Dictyostelium discoideum. Shortly after graduating she did some voluntary conservation work in South East Asia, and when the time came to look for work she remembered meeting Kathy Archibald of Safer Medicines Campaign at a conference during her PhD and got in touch.
Michael Coleman
Dr Michael Coleman is an eminent toxicologist based at the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He was awarded his Doctorate of Science in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to biochemical toxicology. Dr. Coleman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and author of over 90 peer-reviewed publications in his field and is currently an Associate Editor for Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology.
Elisabeth Devilard
Dr Elisabeth Devilard is a senior scientist at L’Occitane, which manufactures cosmetic products
Ray Greek
Dr Ray Greek is author and co-author of five books that challenge the value of animal experiments from a strictly scientific perspective. His latest book, entitled Animal Models in Light of Evolution (co-authored with Professor Niall Shanks) deals in considerable detail with the question of predictivity.
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André Ménache
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Antidote Europe
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CEO of Antidote Europe, André Menache is a zoologist and a veterinary surgeon. He has a particular interest in medical law and was instrumental in amending the Declaration of Helsinki.
André Menache works as CEO. Born in Belgium, he obtained his degree in veterinary medicine in South Africa in 1980. His scientific opposition to animal experimentation led him to uncover serious methodological shortcomings in human experimentation (“clinical trials”), about which he has published several papers.
He has a particular interest in medical law and was instrumental in amending the Declaration of Helsinki. His proposal to use non-animal methods in scientific research was adopted by the World Medical Association General Assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2000. His current field of interest is that of regulatory toxicology.