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5: THE WASHINGTON REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER
Pages 45-52

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... . The primate centers are distributed throughout the United States, and together they maintain more than 18,000 nonhuman primates representing 32 species.
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... Perhaps the major influences on the scientific programs of a primate center are the research interests of the director and core faculty, the research strengths of the institution, and the availability of funding for particular types of research. FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS The Washington Regional Primate Research Center (WRPRC)
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... WRPRC operates several additional facilities. The Infant Primate Research Laboratory, located in the health sciences complex at the Center on Human Development and Disabilities provides lab space and housing for 125 animals and a 24-hour-a-day intensive care unit for low birth weight animals, animals rejected by their mothers, or primate infants assigned to studies of developmental problems such as fetal alcohol syndrome or respiratory distress syndrome.
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... Second, although the strength of the Washington Regional Primate Research Center is in no small measure due to the strong scientific leadership it received from prior center directors Orville Smith and Douglas Bowden, and the strong research faculty at the University of Washington, the secondary
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... COST ISSUES Each regional primate research center operates under grant funds obtained from NCRR, and its program is reviewed every five years. In 1993, the seven regional primate research centers received $40.8 million (57 percent)
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... A new, smaller, and more efficient facility at American Lake will be constructed; this facility will be shared with the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. In addition, some breeding animals will be moved to the Tulane Regional Primate Research Center in Louisiana, where they can be reared in outdoor corrals far less expensively, at perhaps one-tenth the cost of Medical Lake.
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... All of these regulatory requirements are coming at a time when there is less and less core support from federal funding for the infrastructure for key laboratories and administrative personnel a role that financially strapped academic institutions facing similar constraints are unable to assume. The political activities of animal rights organizations create major costs for a primate facility because nonhuman primates are typically perceived by the public as more sentient animals with a special bond with humans.
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