Americans For Medical Advancement
Americans For Medical Advancement (AFMA) is a not-for-profit, science-based, patient advocacy organization dedicated to improving healthcare through biomedical research. It was founded by Ray Greek, MD and his wife, Jean Greek, DVM. The organization opposes the use of animals as causal analogical models, or predictive models, for human response, and argues that using animals as a basis for the human response to drugs is not a safe method of development. For example, efficacy testing, medical research, and ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and toxicity) are results from animal-based research that were assumed predictive for humans. The organization is relentlessly trying to have a peer reviewed debate with the animal researchers community on Trans Species Modelling Theory, in order for it to get accepted by the entire scientific community and get mainstream..It Is important to note that the most trivial consequence of Trans Species Modelling Theory is a defunding of animal tests and a massive increase in funds for preclinical human based animal free research. AFMA is currently supporting the Parliamentary Early Day Motion 175 in UK,whose aim is a parliamentary peer reviewed scientific hearing on the validity of animal experiments when used to predict human response to drugs and disease