About the Authors

Matthew S. Jeffers

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Aileen MacLellan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Marc T. Avey

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Canadian Council on Animal Care, Ottawa, Canada

Julia ML Menon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preclinicaltrials.eu, Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Janet Sunohara-Neilson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Care and Veterinary Services, Western University, London, Canada

Dean A. Fergusson

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Manoj M. Lalu

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

mlalu@toh.ca

Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

JMLM is Director of Preclinicaltrials.eu, a preclinical study registry. MTA and MML are international ambassadors to promote Preclinicaltrials.eu (not financially compensated).