OHSU has begun formal talks about turning the nation’s largest publicly funded primate research center into a sanctuary for its experimental subjects but it’s not clear if that leading idea for the controversial facility’s future can make the cut.
Oregon Health & Science University and the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research, opened formal negotiations last week over the fate of the Oregon National Primate Research Center.
The ramped-up talks follow a February vote by the OHSU board directing President Dr. Shereef Elnahal to explore converting the primate center into a sanctuary for monkeys…