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  • Anna Nekaris and Slow Lorises earn 2012 Lawrence Jacobsen Conservation Award
  • Reduced diet thwarts aging, disease in monkeys
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Shelby O'Connor in the AIDS lab
Slow Loris
Two rhesus monkeys from diet and aging study
Stem Cell Blastocysts

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The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center is one of eight federally supported (NIH-ORIP) National Primate Research Centers and the only one in the Midwest. More than 250 center scientists, through competitive grants, conduct research in primate biology with relevance to human and animal health.

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News

  • Researchers discover the brain origins of variation in pathological anxiety March 26, 2013
  • Transplanted brain cells in monkeys light up personalized therapy March 14, 2013
  • James Thomson receives McEwen Award for Innovation March 14, 2013
  • WNPRC Pilot Grant Winners Study Viruses, Pregnancy and More Feb. 14, 2013
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Events

  • Anna Nekaris Slow Loris Seminar April 2, 2013

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  • Christopher Coe, collaborators, are Cool Science Image winners (second image in slideshow) April 2, 2013
  • In vitro modeling of Hematopoiesis: From Pluripotency to Blood January 24, 2013
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Programs of the National Primate Research Center are supported by the National Center for Research Resources and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) of the National Institutes of Health through Grant Number RR000167.
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