Funding Smarter, More Humane Solutions

The Scientific Landscape is Changing

As an ever-increasing number of scientists across all disciplines are becoming mindful of the inadequacies of animal experimentation, NAVS is leading the way to a new, humane future.

Providing Critical Funding

Excited by the promise of modern science and technology, NAVS seeks out opportunities for funding smarter and more humane solutions that can provide safer and more effective answers to human health needs.

Through the International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER), NAVS provides critical funding to early career researchers with an interest in developing innovative alternatives to animal experiments. In doing so, NAVS and IFER hope to seed the scientific field with talented individuals prepared to integrate scientific discovery with ethics and respect for animals.

NAVS provides support and positive incentives to these scientists, and partners with national and international efforts to implement new methodologies that replace the use of animals in science.

NAVS founded IFER in 1985 and to date has enabled it to award grants totaling more than one million dollars.

Each year, IFER Graduate Fellowships are awarded to promising young scientists who are developing alternatives to the use of animals in science. These one-year grants of up to $15,000 each are renewable annually for up to three years.

Graduate Fellowship recipients have the potential to positively change the course of science by working to promote the advancement of humane and human-relevant methodologies that can spare animal suffering.

Recent IFER Graduate Fellowship recipients have conducted their work at some of North America’s most prestigious institutions, including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of British Columbia and the University of California.

More information on the IFER Graduate Fellowship Program can be found at IFER.org.