Protecting mf " :: Our Animals 4jD .:; $300,000 Grant For Research In a search for alternatives alterna-tives to animal testing, the Bristol-Myers company has awarded two grants totaling $300,000 for research programs pro-grams both in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health has received $200,000 and $100,000 will go to the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experimentation Ex-perimentation (FRAME) in Great Britain. Part of the Hopkins grant will be used to fund a symposium in late 1982 to explore issues related to pharmaceutical safety testing. test-ing. Johns Hopkins spokesmen, spokes-men, in receiving the grant, praised it as a "positive step in the further development develop-ment of partnerships between be-tween industry and academia in dealing cooperatively with some of the important problems prob-lems we face as a society." They stress its value in expanding the Center's focus to problems of testing for systemic toxicity, in addition addi-tion to priorities already given to seeking alternatives for eye and skin safety tests. The eye and skin safety testing will be funded, in part, through a previous Bristol-Myers grant of $200,-000 $200,-000 made through the Cosmetic, Cos-metic, Toiletry and Fragrance Fra-grance Association. The company's ultimate goal in animal testing is to develop products which can be used safely and effectively effec-tively by humans. Product testing must also conform with legally imposed safety requirements. Although Hopkins spokesmen spokes-men caution that the need for animal tests will continue for some time, they are optimistic that the efforts of the Center will help reduce re-duce that need significantly. 1