Wisconsin National Primate Research Center – Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care – UW–Madison

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

Common Marmosets in the Lobby Vivarium

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

Marmoset Blastocysts from James Thomson's Groundbreaking Stem Cell Research in the 1990s

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Decades of WNPRC Discoveries

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The Madison skyline and the length of State Street is seen from a drone on a colorful fall (autumn) morning at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Oct. 28, 2024. (Photo by Althea Dotzour / UW–Madison)

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The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center’s mission is to increase understanding of basic primate biology and to improve human and animal health and quality of life through research.

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HVTN Translational HIV Vaccine Early Stage Investigator (ESI) Conference

September 29-30, 2025

42nd Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS

Tuesday, September 30 – Friday, October 3, 2025

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