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FBR is the leading voice supporting the humane animal research in scientific research that saves lives and improves health for humans and animals alike.
From Research to Real-World Treatments
The Making Medicine campaign shows how ethical animal research helps create the medicines and vaccines we rely on every day.
Why It Matters
Animal research is essential to understanding disease, developing safe treatments, and improving health for both humans and animals. It forms the foundation of nearly every major medical breakthrough.
Drives Scientific Discovery
Enables Safe Treatments
Benefits Animal Health Too
Leads to Breakthroughs
Coming Soon: National Polling Insights
In partnership with Ardelis Health, FBR is conducting a three-part strategic research initiative to better understand attitudes toward biomedical research involving animals. These insights will help shape FBR’s next national awareness campaign.
Results will be shared soon.
Not the Same as Animal Testing
Animal research focuses on understanding how the body works, not just testing products.
A Foundation of Discovery
It helps scientists understand how diseases form and spread.
Guides Medical Breakthroughs
Animal models help develop and test lifesaving treatments.
Benefits Humans & Animals
From lab work to veterinary advances, the research helps all species.
Learn how biomedical discovery happens—from understanding disease to creating safe, effective treatments. Through responsible, humane animal research, scientists are improving and saving lives while upholding the highest ethical standards.
Built on Standards
At FBR, we believe that scientific advances should never come at the expense of animal care. Every study we support or promote follows strict regulatory standards to ensure the highest levels of welfare. When animals are protected, science thrives — and so does public trust.
FBR also works closely with the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR), which advocates for policies that enable responsible animal research to advance both human and animal health.
Partner in Success
Your support fuels ethical research that drives real cures. Help reduce disease, ease suffering, and improve lives for generations.
Advance Ethical Research
Educate & Inform
Create Lasting Impact
Promote Global Health
Protecting Research Through Outreach
FBR partners with scientific institutions and communication experts to identify, address, and correct misleading claims about animals in research. Our goal is to ensure the public receives accurate, evidence-based information.
We closely monitor the evolving strategies of animal rights groups that aim to disrupt or discredit humane biomedical research. Through detailed reports, we equip research institutions with the knowledge needed to anticipate and respond to these tactics.
FBResearch helps organizations develop effective communication strategies that build trust, educate communities, and protect the future of ethical scientific research. Transparent, proactive messaging is key to gaining and maintaining public support.
Critical Contributors to Medical Development
Sharing over 90% of their DNA with humans, long-tailed macaques are vital for developing treatments for cancer, depression, hypertension, and rare diseases. Highly regulated and ethically studied, these primates play an irreplaceable role in advancing lifesaving therapies — including vaccines and gene-editing breakthroughs. Without them, thousands of promising drugs could face critical delays.
When Science Meets Love
Arrow’s Story: How a Loving Home Helped a Poodle Overcome Trauma
Kitten’s Story: Living With Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
Fifi’s Story: My Retired Racing Greyhound Beat
Clyde’s Story: My Best Friend’s Cancerous Tumor Shrunk After Cryotherapy
Judy’s Story: My Retired Research Beagle Is a Hero
Bare’s Story: Our Journey Through Canine Epilepsy
Minnie’s Story: My Cockapoo No Longer Has Seizures After Taking Medication
Allegro and Cadence’s Story: My Rescue Ponies
Love Animals? Support Animal Research
From cancer in dogs to cataracts in cats, animals face many of the same health challenges as humans. Thanks to responsible animal research, treatments once created for people are now saving pets, too. Supporting this research means better medicine, safer procedures, and longer, healthier lives — for both humans and their animal companions.
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