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Non-Technical Summaries

The Home Office publishes non-technical summaries of all approved licences for animal work.  These are available on their website, under the heading of transparency data on animal research.

Current licences held at Durham are listed below with date of approval.  Non-technical summaries will be available on the Home Office website as above:

  • The role of time in learning and memory (October 2024)
  • Neuronal coding in the hippocampal system (October 2023)
  • Functional consequences of metals and mutations on p53 function (September 2022)
  • Antibody production for clinical and research applications (September 2021)
  • Red deer and the impacts of human disturbance (December 2020)
  • Memory in the Rat (November 2020)

Other licences held within the past five years (no-longer active) are as follows:

  • Antibody Production for Biological and Biomedical Research (June 2021 - December 2021)
  • The Autonomic Nervous System in cardiovascular regulation (March 2021 - April 2024)
  • Time-dependent mechanisms in learning and memory (July 2019 - July 2024)
  • Neuronal coding in the hippocampal system (May 2018 - May 2023)
  • Skin and hair follicle development and regeneration (October 2017 - October 2022)
  • Service monoclonal and polyclonal antibody production for Biological and Biomedical Research (June 2016 - June 2021)
  • Autonomic control of the Cardiovascular System (February 2016 - February 2021)
  • Behaviour of fish in the natural environment (October 2015 - October 2020)
  • Assembly and function of the nuclear envelope (October 2015 - October 2020)
  • Memory in the Rat (October 2015 - October 2020)