"We would be in absolute, utter darkness about AIDS if we hadn't done decades' of basic research into animal retroviruses."

C. Everett Koop, M.D.
Former U.S. Surgeon General

"Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations."

1990 Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Murray, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

"Animal research - followed by human clinical study - is absolutely necessary to find the causes and cures for so many deadly threats from AIDS to cancer."

Daniel H. Johnson, Jr., M.D.
Former President, American Medical Association

"There is no alternative to the use of animals for analyzing the complexity of immunity. Progress in all areas of medicine is enormously enhanced by the new gene 'knockout' and transgenic mouse technologies."

1996 Nobel Laureate Peter C. Doherty, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Immunology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

"Now, more than ever, research with laboratory animals is required to bring the benefits' of advances in molecular genetics, neuroscience, and other highly productive fields to clinical application through the study of intact organisms."

1989 Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus, M.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health

"The use of animals in biomedical research and testing has been, and will continue to be, absolutely crucial to the progress against AIDS and a wide range of other applications in both humans and animals."

Jocelyn Elders, M.D.
Former U.S. Surgeon General

"Without the use of animals and human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans, but also among animals."

Albert B. Sabin, M.D.
Developer of the Polio Vaccine

"Animal experiments have contributed greatly to the understanding, prevention and control of human illness'. Animal experiments will continue to contribute greatly to the understanding and control of human illness."

Alan Goldberg, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Development of Alternatives to Animal Testing Johns Hopkins University

"The importance of animal models in biomedical research is indisputable. Without these models, many years of valuable time would be lost in the discovery and perfection of treatments and vaccines for a multitude of illnesses, including AIDS."

 

Kristine Gebbie, R.N.
Former Director, Office of National AIDS Policy

"My life and the lives of millions of people with HIV or AIDS depend on scientists working with animals to develop new therapies."

Jeff Getty
Recipient of baboon bone marrow in AIDS research experiment