Association of Health Funds (SGF)
Collaborating Health Foundations
The Association of Collaborating Health Foundations (SGF) consists of 22 health foundations who contribute to prevention, cure and treatment of diseases, and to improve quality of life of people with chronic illness. We believe that we can have most impact if we join forces on disease overarching topics.
Research models based on humans
The mission of SGF is ‘longer healthy living for everyone in the Netherlands’. Together we are committed to achieving a healthy lifestyle and living environment, quality of life and innovative treatments. Research models based on human are expected to approximate more closely to humans than animal models do. The more closely a research model approximates to humans, the sooner the corresponding research results can be applied in practice for the patient.
Human Measurement Models
The SGF is represented in the core team and the transition team of TPI. In the SGF opinion on animal experiments, human measurement models and stimulating animal-free research is described how the SGF contributes to the ambitions of TPI. With the research programme ‘Human measurement models’ SGF invests in the development and application of better predictive human models in health research.
By stimulating the development of animal-free innovations within the human measurement models programme, we intend to reduce the dependency of research on animal models.
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