WNPRC Core and Affiliated Research Labs

Researchers appear alphabetically by last name. All departments and programs are UW-Madison unless otherwise noted. Research interests in parentheses are those involving the Primate Center, although many researchers have other interests as well.

*David Abbott (polycystic ovary disease)
- Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Program
- OB/GYN
Judd Aiken (mitochondrial involvement in aging, sarcopenia)
- Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences
Andrew Alexander (Parkinson's disease, embryonic stem cell transplant)
- MR Physics Research/Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior (Director)
David Allison (biostatistics, aging, obesity)
- University of Alabama-Birmingham-Clinical Nutrition Research Center (Director)
Jeanne Altmann (baboon behavior and societies)
- Amboseli Baboon Research Project
Anthony Auger (puberty onset)
- Psychology
Michele Basso (Parkinson's disease, movement disorders)
- Physiology/Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Ronald Bontrop (AIDS vaccine research)
- Netherlands Primate Research Center Director
*Kevin Brunner (veterinary services)
- WNPRC Animal Services
Dennis Burton (AIDS vaccine research)
- The Scripps Research Institute
*Saverio (Buddy) Capuano (behavior, colony, compliance and training, veterinary services)
- WNPRC Animal Services (Director)
*Christina Clark (veterinary services)
- WNPRC Animal Services
Anton Clemens (metabolic syndrome)
- NeuroEndo Pharma
Christopher Cold (comparative primate anatomy)
- Marshfield Laboratories
*Ricki Colman (caloric restriction and aging, nutrition)
- WNPRC Aging Resource/Caloric Restriction project (with Rick Weindruch)
Alexander Converse (Parkinson's disease, embryonic stem cell transplant)
- Waisman Center
Stella de la Torre (primate ecology and behavior)
- Zoology and Behavioral Ecology
Onofre DeJesus (Parkinson's disease, embryonic stem cell transplant)
- Medical Physics
Ronald Desrosiers (AIDS vaccine research)
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Daniel Dumesic (polycystic ovary disease)
- Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Associates
Andrea Dunaif (polycystic ovary disease)
- Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine
Ian Duncan (multiple sclerosis)
- Veterinary Medicine and Stem Cell Transplant
Marina Emborg (Parkinson's disease, GDNF, embryonic stem cells)
- WNPRC Website
- Stem Cell Training Program/Neuroscience Training Program
- Michael J. Fox Foundation
Linda Fedigan (endocrinology in wild primates)
- University of Calgary, Anthropology
Luis Fernandez (diabetes)
- Transplantation
Craig Ferris (neuroscience, olfactory processing)
- University of Massachusetts, Physiology and Psychiatry
Cynthia Fowler (aging and hearing)
- Communicative Disorders
Robert Freedman (menopausal hot flashes)
- Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences
*Thomas Friedrich (AIDS vaccine research)
- WNPRC Immunology & Virology/UW-Madison AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory
*Ted Golos (placental development, embryonic stem cells)
- Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Program
- OB/GYN
- Stem Cell Training Program
Andrea Gore (menopause neuroendrocrinology)
- University of Texas at Austin - Pharmacy
Lisa Gould (endocrinology in wild primates)
- University of Victoria, Anthropology
Ashley Haase (AIDS vaccine research)
- University of Minnesota - Microbiology
*Michele Harke (veterinary services)
- WNPRC Animal Services
Peiman Hematti (embryonic stem cells, blood-derived cells)
- Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant
Austin Hughes (AIDS vaccine research)
- University of South Carolina - Biological Sciences
Reinhold Hutz, (xenobiotics, dioxin and reproduction/infertility)
- Biology University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jeffrey Johnson (Parkinson's disease)
- Pharmaceutical Sciences
Sterling Johnson (Alzheimer's disease)
- Neuropsychology Neuroimaging Lab
Ned Kalin (inhibition, fear, psychiatric disorders)
- Psychiatry (Chair)
- HealthEmotions Research Institute (lead scientist, with Richard Davidson and Steve Shelton)
Tim Kamp (embryonic stem cells, heart muscle cells)
- Graduate Studies in Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
- Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science
- Stem Cell Training Program
- Physiology
William Karasov (nutrient absorption)
- Wildlife Ecology
Paul Kaufman (glaucoma, presbyopia)
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (Chair)
*Joseph Kemnitz (aging, nutrition, dietary restriction, obesity, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, endometriosis, Usher syndrome)
- Physiology
- Neuroscience Training Program
- Institute on Aging
- Nutritional Sciences
Stephen Kennedy (endometriosis)
- University of Oxford, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
William Kimberling (hearing loss genetics)
- National Center for the Study and Treatment of Usher Syndrome
Stuart Knechtle (kidney transplant)
- Transplantation
Joanna Lambert (primate digestion)
- Anthropology and Zoology, Gaylord Nelson Institute
Keith Latham (embryo gene expression)
- Temple University - Biochemistry
Jon Levine (polycystic ovary disease)
- Northwestern University - Neurobiology and Physiology
Robert Millar (polycystic ovary disease)
- University of Edinburgh - MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit
Erwin Montgomery (Parkinson's disease, ST Dystonia, movement disorders)
- Neurology
Robert Nickles (Parkinson's disease, embryonic stem cell transplant)
- Medical Physics and Radiology
*David O'Connor (AIDS vaccine research)
- Pathology & Genetics
James O'Malley (age-related decline in testosterone)
- Pfizer
Seth Pollak (emotional development)
- Psychology and Psychiatry & Pediatrics
*Eva Rakasz (AIDS vaccine research)
- WNPRC Immunology & Virology/UW-Madison AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory
*Cynthia Robinson (Information Technology and Systems Services, Jacobsen Library, Primate Info Net)
- WNPRC Information Services Division (Director)
Wendy Saltzman (behavioral endocrinology)
- University of California-Riverside - Biology
*Richard Rudersdorf (AIDS vaccine research)
- UW-Madison AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory
Dale Schoeller (obesity, aging and caloric restriction)
- Nutritional Sciences
*Nancy Schultz-Darken (gateway for researchers conducting studies through WNPRC)
- WNPRC Centralized Protocol Implementation
Aimen Shabaan (in utero stem cell transplantation)
- General Surgery
Igor Slukvin (embryonic stem cells, blood-derived cells, immunology)
- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Stem Cell Training Program
Charles Snowdon (primate behavior, communication, cognition)
- Psychology
Karen Strier (muriqui biology, behavior, ecology, conservation)
- Anthropology
Clive Svendsen (neural stem cells, Parkinson's, Huntington's, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Down Syndrome, Fragile X)
- Anatomy and Neurology
- Stem Cell Research
- Neuroscience Training Program
Andrew Swick (obesity)
- Pfizer - Manager Cardiovascular & Metabolic Diseases-Obesity
Sherry Tanumihardjo (Vitamin A)
- Nutritional Sciences
Alice Tarantal (polycystic ovary disease, in vitro fertilization)
- University of California-Davis - Pediatrics/Cell Biology/Human Anatomy
*Ei Terasawa (Neuroendrocrine developmental hormones, triggers of puberty, Parkinson's disease, embryonic stem cell transplant)
- Pediatrics
- Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Program
- Neuroscience Training Program
*James Thomson (embryonic stem cells)
- Anatomy/Stem Cell Training Program/WiCell/National Stem Cell Bank
Catherine Vandevoort (in vitro fertilization)
- University of California-Davis - Molecular/Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Chris Vinyard (evolutionary and functional morphology of the mammalian skull)
- Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine - Anatomy
*David Watkins (AIDS vaccine research)
- Pathology/Genetics/UW-Madison AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory (Director)
Richard Weindruch (Caloric Restriction and Aging)
- Geriatrics and Gerontology
- Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences
- Institute on Aging
*Nancy Wilson (AIDS vaccine research)
- UW-Madison AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory
Su-Chun Zhang (neural stem cells , Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis)
- Anatomy and Neurology
*Toni Ziegler (behavioral endocrinology, hormone measurements)
- Psychology and Assay Services

*Core WNPRC Labs; others are affiliate or collaborating