Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
WNPRC-trained physician-scientist Nakul Aggarwal — who earned his neuroscience PhD in Ned Kalin’s lab studying early-life anxiety in nonhuman primates and children — discusses his translational research, his work as a Biomedical Research Awareness Day fellow, and why animal research is essential to advancing children’s mental health.
Beverly Hutcherson completed her master’s in Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology after a 21-year journey, with a PCOS thesis rooted in monkey-model research mentored by WNPRC’s David Abbott.
Watch Dr. Karen Strier’s talk about her 40 years of studying the muriqui monkeys of Brazil. Dr. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at UW–Madison. Watch now.
We had a blast at this year’s Science Expeditions! Over 300 people came to visit the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center for this UW–Madison campus-wide science event. That’s a new record! In addition to seeing the marmosets, people talked with UW–Madison graduate student researchers and learned about neuroscience. Special thanks go out to all of …
Graduate student research news Samuel Dettle, a graduate student in the lab of Igor Slukvin, M.D., Ph.D., won a 2024 Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Graduate Research Training Award. His research focuses on developing a differentiation system capable of generating engraftable hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These cells have …
WNPRC scientist Marina Emborg and collaborators at Mayo Clinic showed that stem-cell-derived heart muscle cells can safely integrate into the hearts of rhesus macaques — the first congenital heart disease–like monkey model, developed at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
by Jennifer Bal and Mariel Mohns Scientists at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) and the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been at the forefront of stem cell research and regenerative biology since James Thomson isolated the first human embryonic stem cell in 1998. The Thomson Lab continued to pioneer new techniques to advance the field, including methods to …
In this WPR “Wisconsin Today” conversation, WNPRC scientist Jenna Schmidt and University of Florida collaborator Helen Jones explain how a gene therapy that restores the placental protein IGF-1 — shown safe in rhesus macaques at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center — could one day treat complicated human pregnancies.