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Affiliate or Collaborating Scientists (Past and Present)

Researchers appear alphabetically by last name. Research interests in parentheses are those involving the Primate Center, although many researchers have other interests as well.

• 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
• Dennis Burton (AIDS vaccine research)
  • The Scripps Research Institute
• Anton Clemens (metabolic syndrome)
  • NeuroEndo Pharma
• Christopher Cold (comparative primate anatomy)
  • Marshfield Laboratories
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
  • Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center
  • Physiology
• William Karasov (nutrient absorption)
  • Wildlife Ecology
• Paul Kaufman (glaucoma, presbyopia)
  • Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (Chair)
• Stephen Kennedy (endometriosis)
  • University of Oxford, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• William Kimberling (hearing loss genetics)
  • Foundation for Fighting Blindness
• Stuart Knechtle (kidney transplant)
  • Transplantation
• Joanna Lambert (primate digestion)
  • Anthropology and Zoology, Gaylord Nelson Institute
• Keith Latham (embryo gene expression)
  • Temple University - Biochemistry
• 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
• James O'Malley (age-related decline in testosterone)
  • Pfizer
• Seth Pollak (emotional development)
  • Psychology and Psychiatry & Pediatrics
• Wendy Saltzman (behavioral endocrinology)
  • University of California-Riverside - Biology
• Dale Schoeller (obesity, aging and caloric restriction)
  • Nutritional Sciences
• Aimen Shabaan (in utero stem cell transplantation)
  • General Surgery
• Pamela J. Skinner (Neurodegenerative disease and HIV pathogenesis)
  • Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
• 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)
  • Neuroscience Training Program
  • Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute
• 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
• 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
• Richard Weindruch (Caloric Restriction and Aging)
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology
  • Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences
  • Institute on Aging
• Su-Chun Zhang (neural stem cells , Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis)
  • Anatomy and Neurology