Definition of Americans for medical advancement

Americans For Medical Advancement (AFMA) is a 501(c)(3) science-based patient advocacy organization dedicated to improving policy and decision-making regarding the use of the animalmodel in biomedical research and drug testing. They oppose the use of animals only as models for predicting human response. For example ADMET, efficacy testing, and medical research where results from animal-based research is assumed predictive for humans. Scientifically, such uses are known as using animals as causal analogical models.