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Two researchers sit at a table outside the WNPRC processing COVID-19 spit tests.

Miranda Stauss and Roger Wiseman process samples collected in a trial of a new COVID-19 saliva test.

https://news.wisc.edu/simpler-covid-19-test-could-provide-results-in-hours-from-saliva/

Igor Slukvin, who studies hematopoietic stem cells, in his lab at the WNRPC (University Communications image).

Igor Slukvin in the hematopoietic stem cell lab

Common marmosets in the WNPRC lobby vivarium (J. Lenon photo)

Common marmosets in the lobby vivarium

Neurons growing from marmoset embryonic stem cells in Marina Emborg's Preclinical Parkinson's disease research lab (S. Vermilyea image)

Neurons grown from stem cells by Marina Emborg and Ted Golos labs

People walking through the lobby of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research. (Photo by J. Lenon)

The WNPRC supports basic research and preclinical studies leading to human clinical trials

Marmoset blastocysts in under a microscope in James Thomson's lab in the mid-1990s (Photo by V. Marshall).

Marmoset blastocysts containing embryonic stem cells in James Thomson's lab in the mid-1990s

Researchers in David O'Connor's lab analyzing macaque genome data (photo courtesy of the O'Connor lab).

Researchers in David O'Connor's lab analyzing macaque genome data

Dr. David Evans, left, checks the growth of natural killer cells with Mikey Grunst, research specialist, at the UW–Madison and WNPRC AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory. (J. Lenon photo)

Dave Evans and Mikey Grunst check natural killer cell growth in the AIDS Vaccine Research Lab

Ned Kalin explains his research on anxiety and depression

https://youtu.be/4s5j4Smcijc

Featured News and Research Highlights:

World AIDS Day Dec. 1, 2021 updates: HIV research at the WNPRC

Nature on the US boosting research funding for the NIH-funded National Primate Research Centers

WNPRC COVID-19 Research News

Designer alterations to brain cells reduce anxious behavior in monkeys, hold promise for new treatments

Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness

Individualized brain cell grafts reverse Parkinson’s symptoms in monkeys

Celebrating 25 years of embryonic stem cell research at UW–Madison

Facts about animal research and responses to animal rights misallegations

MORE WNPRC NEWS / COVID-19 RESEARCH UPDATES

Scientists and research programs

Services for researchers

Animal services and care

UW response to COVID-19

Why Primates

The National Primate Research Centers: Causes, Preventions, Treatments, Cures

The Livesaving Benefits of Primate Research

The Critical Role of Nonhuman Primates in Scientific and Medical Research

Discoveries

WNPRC Scientific Journal Articles

WNPRC Discoveries

WNPRC Discoveries by Scientific Working Group

Contributions of nonhuman primate research to human health

Events

Annual WNPRC Robert W. Goy Lecture Series

Scientific seminars: Please contact us for information on upcoming research seminars

Learn More About Biomedical Research and Animal Care

Animal Research at UW-Madison: Get the Facts

Americans for Medical Progress

Foundation for Biomedical Research

Speaking of Research