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National Primate Research Centers are a network of seven research programs in the United States funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct biomedical research on primates. [1] Each center is affiliated with a university or other host institution.
The TNPRC is situated in 500 acres of land in Covington, Louisiana, and originally opened as the Delta Regional Primate Center in 1964. The center uses five types of non-human primates in its research: cynomolgus macaques, African green monkeys, mangabeys, pig-tailed macaques and rhesus macaques. The TNPRC employs over three hundred people and ...
Oregon National Primate Research Center, in Hillsboro, Oregon; affiliated with the Oregon Health and Science University. Southwest National Primate Research Center, in San Antonio, Texas, part of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, Louisiana, part of Tulane University.
The Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) is one of seven federally funded National Primate Research Centers [2] in the United States and has been affiliated with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) since 1998. [3] The center is located on 200 acres (0.81 km 2) of land in Hillsboro, Oregon. [4]
The Emory National Primate Research Center (formerly known as Yerkes National Primate Research Center) [1] located in Atlanta, Georgia, owned by Emory University, [2] is a center of biomedical and behavioral research, is dedicated to improving human and animal health, and is the oldest of seven National Primate Research Centers partially funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Cops are warning residents in rural South Carolina to shut their doors and windows after at least 43 monkeys escaped from a bio-research lab. The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis ...
Alpha Genesis is a company in Yemassee, South Carolina that breeds cynomolgous, rhesus and capuchin monkeys and sells the animals for use in research. Led by CEO Greg Westergaard [ 1 ] the company is one of the largest of its kind in the world. [ 2 ]
In a media statement, Mace's office added: "Despite receiving over $110 million in taxpayer funding since 2008 — including $19 million this year alone — Alpha Genesis has a disturbing history ...