Dear All,

the next Fin3R Webinar will be held on August 22, 2023 at 2 pm (EEST):

Title: “The benefits of systematic review and meta-analysis of animal research” 

Speaker: Dr. Kim Wever (Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands) 

Host: Vootele Voikar (University of Helsinki)

In this webinar, Dr. Kim Wever will outline how systematic review and meta-analysis can be valuable tools to inform and improve animal research. She will explain the basic principles of these methodologies, highlight their benefits and direct you to tools and resources in the field. 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5UqdOCqrj4rE9OM01tbgi9awhcnbmu0BTw8

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

About the speaker:

Dr. Kimberley (Kim) Wever is a meta-research expert dedicated to maximizing the value of animal studies for human health and works at the Meta-Research team - Radboudumc

( https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/research/departments/anesthesiology/meta-research-team ).  

She is specialized in the use of systematic review and meta-analysis methodology to drive improvements in the design, validity and transparency of animal research, having more than 10 years’ experience in performing (methodological research on) evidence synthesis and validity assessments of animal studies, and in training scientists to do better research. The team has achieved many milestones in this area together with their long-standing colleagues at SYRCLE and CAMARADES

( https://www.ed.ac.uk/clinical-brain-sciences/research/camarades ).  

Reetta Hinttala

Associate Professor (tenure track), PhD

Research Unit of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Coordinator of Transgenic and Tissue Phenotyping Core Facility

Biocenter Oulu, INFRAFRONTIER (ESFRI)

University of Oulu

Finland