The Laboratory Pig (Laboratory Animal Pocket Reference) - Softcover

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Kirsten Rosenmay Jacobsen, DVM, Ph.D., is Principal Scientist at Novo Nordisk, Denmark and previously Chief Scientific Officer at Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs A/S, Denmark. She specializes in laboratory animal welfare and animal models and is a Council Member of the National Animal Ethics Council in Denmark, and European AAALAC Ad hoc specialist.

Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup, Dr. Vet. Sci., Ph.D., DVM is Associated Professor of Laboratory Animal Science at Aarhus University and researcher at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. He graduated in veterinary medicine in 1997 from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen. After two years at a pig slaughterhouse, he was a Ph.D. student in laboratory animal science between 1999 and 2001. In 2019 he received formal specialist recognition in laboratory animal medicine, and in 2021 he earned his doctorate with a thesis about PET neuroimaging in pigs. Dr. Alstrup has published approximately 200 scientific papers – many about pig experimentation.

Axel Kornerup Hansen Dr. Vet. Sci. DVM is Professor of Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Denmark, from which he also graduated. He is a member of a research group with a strong focus on laboratory animal science and welfare, and his key research topics have been how microbes have an impact on animal models.

Peter Bollen Ph.D. is professor and head of the Department of Experimental Medicine, the central animal facility of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has studied experimental zoology and laboratory animal science in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and laboratory animal science in London, England, and got his Ph.D. in comparative medicine from the University of Southern Denmark.