MONDAY MORNING AALAS 73RD NATIONAL MEETING
the immune system against cancer. This lecture will describe the discovery and development of tissue vaccines, beginning in rodent models through initial commercialization as a product for the treatment of cancer in dogs. Targeted audience would be anyone attending the meeting who would like to learn more about developing treatment and vaccines for cancer.
is appropriate for any LAS individual or team that regularly faces complex challenges. Session attendees will learn how to administer an Action Learning Framework to collectively generate new approaches for complex problems and how to use Polarity Mapping to maintain balance when challenged by competing commitments.
This Special Topic Lecture is sponsored in part by Committee for Technician Awareness and Development (CTAD).
Understanding the Animal Rights Movement: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Two Adult Education Tools for Managing Complex Problems in Laboratory Animal Science
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Speaker/Moderator: Lisa M Kelly Facilitator: Teresa Neubauer For most every problem, there is a solution that is quick, easy, and completely ineffective. Two years of pandemic have underscored the complexity of the issues that we face in the laboratory animal science industry, both personally and professionally. Our challenges are multifaceted, complicated, and often frustratingly difficult to solve. How do we increase speed and efficiency, without sacrificing animal welfare or succumbing to human burnout? How do meet the demands of researchers, the policies of our institutions, the expectations of our regulatory and accreditation bodies, while also maintaining a positive public image? How do we love animals, participate in euthanasia, and stay tender, yet strong in the face our conflicted emotions? These are just a few examples of the polarities that we must regularly navigate, in addition to unlimited daily questions that defy timely resolution. In this modern reality, we must determine how to address problems without answers. This session will focus on two adult education tools that can be used to help manage these convoluted challenges. First, we will discuss the power of Collaborative Action Inquiry, as described by Bill Torbert. We will look at how triple loop learning can help us reconsider the very nature of problems. Specifically, we will cover how an Action Learning Framework, as described by researchers O’Neil and Marsick, can be used as a collective-thought tool to generate new insights into complex situations. Next, this session will demonstrate how Barry Johnson’s Polarity Mapping can be a visual instrument to find balance in completing commitments. Using Polarity Mapping, we can learn to quickly identify thoughts and actions that are counterproductive to managing our dichotomies. This seminar will provide ideas and examples on how these two adult learning exercises may serve as useful problem management tools. This session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Speaker: Matthew R Bailey Moderator: Eva C Maciejewski Facilitator: Leah Yonkovich For years the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) maintained a record of illegal incidents to track tactics used by some of those involved with the animal rights movement. That all changed with the passage of Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in 2006. Today the movement relies more on the use of various forms of communication to influence—and misinformation to mislead—the public and elected officials to generate targets/campaigns and influence policy initiatives. Some groups have weaponized the use of the federal FOIA and state open records acts to target both individuals and institutions. The one thing that has not changed over the years is the ever present“donate”button that appears in nearly all postings and messaging campaigns. More recently several of the groups have been effective in persuading members of Congress to introduce what can best be described as“messaging bills”because they often amount to no more than a catchy title with no substance and no chance of passing. Yet these bills can be used to mislead the public to generate additional funds to support the sense of what the bill could accomplish. While such efforts may fool some of the public some of the time, what the public really wants to hear is facts and a positive story. This can be demonstrated by recent focus groups and polling data conducting by FBR that puts the use of animals in research in context. In this presentation the changes to the tactics of the animal rights movement will be reviewed with an emphasis on the current tactics and what tactics could be used in the future, what has been learned from recent focus groups and polling data, and how the research community has been responding to the change in tactics, as well as what they should do to respond in the future. The target audience is all who are involved in animal based biomedical research. This Special Topic Lecture is sponsored in part by Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR).
MARK A. SUCKOW
HUNTER LECTURE
Mark Suckow, DVM, DACLAM has over 30 years of experience in laboratory animal medicine,IACUCoperations,management,andresearch. Hehasconductedresearchfocused on cancer, wound healing, and biomaterials. Some of this work has resulted in eight issued patents and formed the basis forTorigen Pharmaceuticals, a company he co-founded to commercialize cancer treatment for companion animals. Currently, Dr. Suckow is AssociateVice President for Research, AttendingVeterinarian, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Kentucky. His idea that the immune system can be strategically harnessed as an approach to cancer treatment has recently received great attention. A significant challenge is posed to this approach by the antigenic diversity and evolutionary capability of many tumors. That is, while tumors may share some common antigens,allmaynotbetherapeuticallyrelevant.Thus,preparationsderiveddirectlyfrom harvested tumor tissue have been used to stimulate the immune system against cancer. Thislecturewilldescribediscoveryanddevelopmentoftissue,beginninginrodentmodels through initial commercialization as a product for treatment of cancer in dogs.
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AnimalWelfare,RegulatoryCompliance,andPublicEducation
BiomedicalResearch,Medicine,andMethodology
Facility Design, Management, and Operations Oncology
