She’s leading NIH’s push to reduce the use of animals in biomedical research

She’s leading NIH’s push to reduce the use of animals in biomedical research

It wasn’t just a favorite childhood pet, or the fact that she cares deeply for animals, that led Nicole Kleinstreuer to help launch the National Institutes of Health’s initiative to scale back reliance on animals in research. It was also her love of numbers. As a student, Kleinstreuer was a self-described math nerd, intrigued by the ability of mathematical models to represent the physical world. After earning degrees in applied mathematics and b…