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.
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.
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.
WNPRC scientist David Abbott received the UW Department of OB-GYN’s Curet Award for Educational Excellence, honoring his teaching and mentorship.
WNPRC neuroendocrinologist Ei Terasawa Grilley marks 50 years as a scientist and teacher at UW–Madison, where her research in nonhuman primates helped define how the brain triggers puberty.
A UC Davis–led study, co-authored by a Wisconsin National Primate Research Center researcher, found that testosterone during puberty shapes how the brain responds to social stress differently in males and females.
UW–Madison researchers, working with the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and collaborators in Taiwan, showed that combining two types of stem-cell-derived heart cells improves repair of heart muscle after a heart attack — a therapy validated in mice and, crucially, in nonhuman primates at WNPRC