Dear colleagues,

I am very pleased to inform you that this year’s annual conference “GV-SOLAS 2021” will take place! Unfortunately, it will not be a presence conference this year, the overall situation is still too uncertain.

We had already selected a nice conference venue for you, the Congress Center “Rosengarten” in Mannheim, but had to make the final decision for this conference venue at a very early stage, when it could not yet be foreseen whether the Corona regulations would allow a presence conference in September at all. This uncertainty combined with a considerable financial risk have led us to present the 59th Scientific Conference of the Society for Laboratory Animal Science GV-SOLAS and the 20th Advance Training Course of IGTP from September 22-24, 2021 as an online meeting.

We are planning again many interesting topics, sessions and discussions, only practical workshops and the inspiring atmosphere of a face-to-face meeting we unfortunately cannot offer this year. To enable you to see as many presentations as possible, the recorded talks will again be available after the end of the conference, i.e. until October 8.

We are looking forward to your abstracts, posters and talks!

With kind regards

Your Mannheim 21 Organizing Team