Funding for this research was provided by:
Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (R2N)
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
Article History
Accepted: 2 July 2023
First Online: 17 August 2023
Declarations
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: <i>Financial</i>: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organisation or entity with any financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. <i>Non-financial</i>: All authors were part of the R2N consortium and shared its main goal of reducing or replacing animal experiments where possible.
: The interview study, to which reference is made in the manuscript and individual examples of the results are used, was classified as uncritical by the ethics committee of Hannover Medical School, Germany (No. 8988_B0_K2020; corresponding letter, dated 23 March 2020, is on file with the corresponding author); German research law does not require formal approval of social science studies. The interview study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, as far as applicable to interview studies.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the interview study.