Speaker: Julia Menon, M.Sc.
Netherlands Heart Institute Utrecht
Poor translational rates raise concerns toward the quality and relevance of animal studies, supporting the call for improvement, such as preregistration. Pre-registration, the act of making available a study design a priori, hold several benefits. It helps to promote transparency, it reduces biases & misconducts (e.g., selective outcome reporting, publication bias, HARKing) and stimulates the reduction of involuntary duplication. Overall, this method could benefit researchers individually, as proof of good planning, and their peers by increasing data sharing. Moreover, dedicated preregistration platforms exist to facilitate the preregistration process. For example, preclinicaltrials.eu is a free registry tailored to researchers’ needs (e.g., user-friendly, fast, secured process). However, despite its upsides, preregistration is only emerging in animal research, where it holds great promises to improve study transparency and quality. In this talk, you'll learn how preregistration proceeds to increase transparency & decrease biases and learn about preclinicaltrials.eu features to (maybe) preregister your studies in the future.
