Animal ethics

There is a real need for new medicines to patients with severe psychiatric and neurological diseases. Here at Lundbeck, we are committed to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better, and live longer. We strive to use animal testing only when necessary and when it promises to benefit individual patients in need of new medicinal care and society as a whole.

Animal testing at Lundbeck is performed with great care. The procedures used are in compliance with national and global guidelines on animal welfare. We use the highest industrial standards and all experiments are performed under strict surveillance of a dedicated veterinarian and reviewed by an ethical board. Lundbeck acknowledges the general principles of the 3R rule: Reduction, Refinement, and Replacement of animal studies. Whenever new scientific knowledge arises, we carefully consider these new alternatives as options in our research. As a result, during the latest five-year period, we have attained a 30% reduction in the number of animals used relative to the number of scientists employed at Lundbeck.