Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
By Jordana Lenon Rhesus monkeys at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center have played a starring role in a study aimed at improving the success of kidney transplants. About 24,000 kidney transplants are performed in the US each year, yet more than 90,000 people are waiting for a transplant. Even when patients get a transplanted …
By Jordana Lenon, B.S., B.A. “Transplants are surviving longer, but the patients are not as healthy as they could be,” says Lynn Haynes, distinguished researcher of transplant research and development in the School of Medicine and Public Health. “We have made tremendous strides in drug development to prolong graft survival, but the required life-long immunosuppressive medications …