Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Phase 0, Including Microdosing Approaches: Applying the Three Rs and Increasing the Efficiency of Human Drug Development

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals December 1, 2018 Tal Burt, Le Thuy Vuong, Elizabeth Baker et al.

Phase 0 approaches, including microdosing, involve the use of sub-therapeutic exposures to the tested drugs, thus enabling safer, more-relevant, quicker and cheaper first-in-human (FIH) testing. These approaches also have considerable potential to limit the use of animals in human drug development. Recent years have witnessed progress in applications, methodology, operations, and drug...