Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
Welcome to our annual update! Thank you, everyone, for another productive and rewarding year at the Primate Center! We have greatly enjoyed celebrating along with the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the whole world the 20th anniversary of the successful derivation and culture of human embryonic stem cells by James Thomson. Meanwhile, even as stem cells were …
We remember our friend and colleague Jenn Brunner (1975–2018), who is deeply missed by everyone at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
Meet David O’Connor — WNPRC’s Associate Director and head of its Global Infectious Disease Division. An HIV-vaccine researcher who led UW–Madison’s Zika response and championed open, real-time data sharing during the outbreak, he’s profiled here on how a single book set him on a career hunting the viruses that threaten human health.
by Jordana Lenon Very few of us have had the chance to interview a famous person, write an article and publish it in our local newspaper. Even fewer have done so in the second grade. Fifteen years ago, seven-year-old Ian Hutchcroft strolled into Jamie Thomson’s office, talked to him for a while, then wrote a …