Tuesday, July 29

2025 ANZCCART Conference, "Innovation and Ethics"

Join us at the 2025 ANZCCART Conference for the latest in animal ethics and research advancements!

By ANZCCART

Date and time

July 29 · 8am - July 31 · 3:30pm AEST

Location

Pullman Brisbane King George Square

Roma Street Brisbane City, QLD 4000 Australia

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 21 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 2 days 7 hours

Welcome

It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to the 2025 ANZCCART Conference in beautiful Brisbane, Queensland. We hope you can join us for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking event as we explore the crucial role of animals in research and teaching across Australia and New Zealand.

The draft program features an array of invited speakers from both interstate and abroad. These experts will be joined by local speakers with a selection of presentations from submitted abstracts. Pre-conference tours include visits to a wide choice of animal facilities and laboratories.

This conference aims to serve as a neutral forum for the exchange of ideas and perspectives, where we can engage in respectful dialogue, fostering a space where diverse views on these complex issues can be expressed and debated. We encourage all participants to engage thoughtfully and contribute to the enriching discussions that will unfold over the course of the event.

We would also like to take this opportunity to extend our thanks to our current sponsors, MAWA, Tecniplast, Dana Briggs Consulting, EthiQualia and AAALAC for their support of this year’s conference.

We look forward to joining you at the Conference.

Alastair Sloan
Chair, ANZCCART Australia

Draft Conference Program:

Check for regular updates. The final Program will be available closer to the Conference.

Pre Conference Tours:

Optional tours are planned for Monday 28 July from 12.30pm.

BOOK now through Eventbrite

Please note:

Tour itineraries and other details are subject to change.
The tours are only available to delegates attending the conference in person.
Due to limited capacity, places will be allocated on a first come first served basis once bookings open.
A wait list will be established for each tour once capacity is reached; payment will not be required unless a place becomes available.
Please do not apply for more than one tour – this helps ensure availability for as many delegates as possible.
Costs are for transport and for the entry fee for Hidden Vale.
Refunds will not be available for bookings cancelled less than 7 days before the tour.

TOUR 1: QUT CENTRE FOR BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (CBT)

This laboratory tour will take participants through world-class medical engineering facilities at QUT’s Centre for Biomedical Technologies to see how engineering technologies can be used to replace animal models for advanced testing of medical devices.

The Advanced Cardiorespiratory Engineering Laboratory works on artificial heart and artificial heart-lung machines, specialising in device design and evaluation, artificial intelligence, and computational modelling to improve patient outcomes.
The Sealy Centre for Biomechanics and Sleep Research works on spinal and joint mechanics, with a particular focus on supporting pre- and post-surgical children with congenital spinal abnormalities.
The Optical and Biomaterials labs research structural and functional relationships in biomedical materials and systems including tissue regeneration for burns victims and as novel wound-healing materials.

Transport: A bus will depart from the conference venue (the Pullman Hotel) at 12.30pm AEST sharp and will return delegates to the Pullman Hotel at approximately 2.15pm.

Cost: $30 (includes transport).

TOUR 2: HIDDEN VALE WILDLIFE RESEARCH STATION AND BIRD-SPOTTING

Located about an hour west of Brisbane’s CBD, the Hidden Vale Research Station is an innovative teaching, research and community engagement enterprise. Helping deliver effective research and teaching about Australian ecosystems and wildlife, the Station provides access to a protected nature refuge and surrounding land, custom-designed research laboratories, teaching and engagement spaces and veterinary clinic. The tour will include an overview of the Station’s program, a tour of the Wildlife Centre and will conclude with a 1 hour bird-spotting walking tour on part of the property’s natural habitat.

Transport: A bus will depart from the conference venue (the Pullman Hotel) at 12.45pm sharp and will return delegates to the Pullman Hotel at approximately 5.15pm.

Cost: $85 (includes transport and entry fee). Please note that food and drink are not available on site but may be available at Spicers Retreat which is about a 5minute walk from the Wildlife Centre (during which you may encounter kangaroos or wallabies!).

TOUR 3: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ANIMAL FACILITIES

The TRI is dedicated to translating scientific discoveries into applications for medical practice. It supports the work of over 800 researchers and clinicians through partnerships with the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Mater Research and the Queensland government.

The tour will be split into three groups that will rotate through key areas of the TRI’s animal facilities: pre-clinical imaging, the germ-free facility, humanised mouse model facility, and the material handling/cage preparation area which includes robotic handling equipment.

Important note: Since this is a Specific Pathogen Free facility, the following strict exclusion procedures apply and participants will be asked to confirm in writing prior to departure that they meet these requirements:

Participants must not have entered any animal facility (regardless of species) for at least 48 hours prior to the day of the tour.
Delegates who share a dwelling with pet rodents or rabbits may not participate in this tour.

Transport: A bus will depart from the conference venue (the Pullman Hotel) at 1.00pm sharp and will return delegates to the Pullman Hotel at approximately 3.45pm.

Cost: $40.00 (includes transport).

Registration Information:

EARLY BIRD Registration has been extended to Monday 9 June 9.00am

Early Bird, Regular, Late and Full Student In-person Registrations all include tea/coffee breaks and lunch for the duration of the Conference. Welcome drinks and the Conference Dinner are also included. Tours and Workshops are not included and are to be booked separately through Eventbrite.

One day In-Person Registration of any type includes tea breaks and lunch for the day of the Registration only. Welcome drinks and the Conference Dinner are not included, however, tickets can be purchased for these separately through Eventbrite.

NB: To ensure that ALL delegates are recorded, only one delegate is to be booked per registration.

Accommodation and Venue:

The venue is the Pullman & Mercure Hotel in Brisbane CBD on the corner of Ann and Roma Streets King George Square, Tel +61 7 3229 9111.

Accommodation
Accommodation at the venue is subject to availability at a special Conference rate of $249 to $279 per night, including one breakfast per room and can be booked through the following links:

Mercure

Pullman

Conference venue

Plenary presentations, including concurrent sessions, for the Conference will be delivered in the Grand Windsor Ballroom, level 2 of the Mercure Hotel. A Sponsor exhibition area will be displayed in the King George Room, adjacent to the Plenary which will also host Lunch and tea breaks.

Accommodation options:

George Williams Hotel, 317 - 325 George Street, Brisbane, 07 3308 0700

Oaks Brisbane on Charlotte, 128 Charlotte Street, Brisbane, 07 3027 8400

Adina Apartment Hotel, 255 Ann Street, Brisbane, 07 3001 9888

Voco, 85 - 97 North Quay, Brisbane, 07 3237 2300

Getting around Brisbane:

Translink Queensland - 50cent flat fare applies to the following:

Queensland Rail City Train services (excluding Air Train service to and from the airport)
buses
Brisbane City ferries and Southern Moreton Bay Island Ferry
trams

Brisbane ferries - Cityhopper free ferry, City Cat and Ferry Cat

Free City and Spring Hill loop bus