Limited Competition: National Primate Research Centers
Funds the national centres that keep primate colonies and open them to researchers across the country. Only existing centres may apply.
Nonhuman primates are the closest animal models to humans, physiologically and genetically, which makes them essential for understanding human biology in health and disease — and correspondingly expensive and difficult to keep. Proper housing, husbandry and veterinary care need specialised facilities and specialised people, which is why the United States concentrates the work in a small number of …
Supporting the activities of the National Primate Research Centers — maintaining large and varied nonhuman primate colonies with the specialised husbandry and management they need, running a multidisciplinary core research programme, and making those resources available to investigators across the country for basic and translational biomedical research.
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