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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Death, Disease & Insanity: Health and Well-Being of Primates at New England National Primate Research Center/Harvard
By Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., Executive Director, SAEN
513-575-5517 [email protected]
Funding
The Annual Progress Report for the New England
National Primate Research Center (NENPRC) with the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) contains many pieces of information which will reveal
significant issues within the labs of NENPRC. During this reporting year
(2002 – 2003) the NENPRC brought approximately $216 million to Harvard.
The vast majority of this funding comes from the federal government
through the National Institutes of Health. Approximately $0.7 million of
this funding total came from private sources.
The effect of monetary issues on animal
experimentation, and thereby the condition of the primates is difficult
to assess. For example, the center has ten projects (9 sub-projects of
the primate center grant and one independent grant) that deal with
issues of abnormal behavior in captive/isolated primates. Over 320
primates are described as having some level of abnormal behavior in the
abstract of one of these projects. If these animals were not the subject
of so many research projects, which each bringing more funding to the
Center and thereby to Harvard, their situation might be improved.
However, since potentially millions of dollars are dependent on the
abnormal behavior of these animals, it is unlikely that their situation
will change in any meaningful way.
The area of addiction experimentation in primates is
one which bears mentioning in this section. Roger Spealman has four
independent grants which examine addiction in primates which are funded
by the NIH at the NENPRC. There are also thirteen sub-projects of the
NENPRC grant which fund research in this same area, by the same
researcher. The four independent grants total $1,032,210 in federal
funding, while the sub-projects are estimated to be worth $841,450. This
area of research, by this researcher alone, likely brings $1,873,660 to
Harvard, with a substantial amount also going to the researcher as well.
Spealman studies cocaine addiction in squirrel monkeys
and heroin addiction in macaque monkeys. This is a highly duplicated
area of experimentation. The NIH funds 76 projects which examine cocaine
or heroin in macaque monkeys, squirrel monkeys, or baboons. In light of
the number of projects which exist in this area, it is highly possible
that unnecessary duplication exists.
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Rats, mice, birds, amphibians and other animals have
been excluded from coverage by the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore research
facility reports do not include these animals. As a result of this
situation, a blank report, or one with few animals listed, does not mean
that a facility has not performed experiments on non-reportable animals. A
blank form does mean that the facility in question has not used covered
animals (primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, pigs,
sheep, goats, etc.). Rats and mice alone are believed to comprise over 90%
of the animals used in experimentation. Therefore the majority of animals
used at research facilities are not even counted.
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