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22 September 2020 | Royal Academy of Engineering

Royal Academy of Engineering elects Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas as a Fellow

Professor Rodriguez-Villegas is the Co-founder and CSO of TainiTec. Her research focuses on wearable medical devices and low-power integrated circuits with a focus on healthcare applications like brain, heart and lung conditions

12 September 2019 | NC3Rs

Invited talk at the 2019 NC3Rs CRACK IT Showcase

TainiTec were invited to present at the session ‘Cognition: Wireless EEG recording in mice’

14 July 2019 | British Association for Psychopharmacology

Invited talk at the British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting 2019

TainiTec were invited to present at the BAP session ‘PsychophaRRRmacology – enhancing research outcomes by applying the 3Rs’

2 November 2018 | NC3Rs

NC3Rs-funded technology wins international award

News story from the ‘National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research’ (NC3Rs) about TaiNi’s award from the AAALAC.

31 October 2018 | AAALAC

Global 3Rs Awards Program Winner

Press release from the ‘Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International’ (AAALAC) naming the 2018 global 3Rs award winners, which included TaiNi’s Scientific Reports research paper.

1 June 2018 | Imperial College London

TaiNi – Awarded Provost’s Award for Excellence in Animal Research

Award given to TaiNi by Imperial College London, as an excellent example of the application of the 3Rs with the potential to transform science, drug development and animal welfare.

4 September 2017 | i (Newspaper)

Brain implant offers new hope for Alzheimer’s disease

Article on the scientific and research potential of the TaiNi system.

4 September 2017 | i (Newspaper)

Why a tiny new mouse implant could revolutionise Alzheimer’s research

Comment article by science corespondent, Tom Bawden, on the scientific and research potential of the TaiNi system.

4 September 2017 | i (Newspaper)

Why a new lightweight brain reading device for mice is so much more humane

Article by Chief Executive of the NC3Rs, Vicky Robinson, on the welfare benefits of the TaiNi system.

14 August 2017 | Nature: Scientific Reports

TaiNi: Maximizing research output whilst improving animals’ welfare in neurophysiology experiments

Academic publication on the validation of TainiTec’s first system – TaiNi.

14 August 2017 | Imperial College London

Dementia and brain research could be improved thanks to new sensor

News story from Imperial College London describing the scientific and welfare importance of TainiTec’s system, TaiNi.

14 August 2017 | NC3Rs

New device for refined neural recording in mice could transform dementia research

News story from the ‘National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research’ (NC3Rs) describing the scientific and welfare importance of TainiTec’s system, TaiNi.