Featured News and Research Highlights:
- Researchers identify sustainable source of immunodeficiency virus-resistant immune cells
- A science trailblazer retires: Stem cell researcher James Thomson’s legacy changed the future of biology (See also Stem cell research: Celebrating 25 years of amazing discoveries)
- A new monkey model for studying Alzheimer’s Disease
- WNPRC COVID-19 Research News
- World AIDS Day 2021 and WNPRC HIV research
- Nature on boosting research funding for National Primate Research Centers
- Designer alterations to brain cells reduce anxious behavior in monkeys
- Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness
- Individualized brain cell grafts reverse Parkinson’s symptoms in monkeys
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Why Primates
The National Primate Research Centers: Causes, Preventions, Treatments, Cures
How do the National Primate Research Centers benefit science and society? (2022)
The Livesaving Benefits of Primate Research (2017)
The Critical Role of Nonhuman Primates in Scientific and Medical Research (2016)
Events
Annual WNPRC Robert W. Goy Lecture Series: Please contact us for information on this and other WNPRC research seminars.
20th annual UW–Madison Science Expeditions Campus Open House April 8-10: All events are free and open to the public. Plan your visit here.

Learn More About Biomedical Research and Animal Care
Animal Research at UW-Madison: Get the Facts
Americans for Medical Progress