Welcome back to CNPRC News, your news roundup from the California National Primate Research Center! There have been a lot of new developments at the center including a change in leadership, awards, and major research discoveries.
Karen Bales Steps in as Interim Director
California National Primate Center (CNPRC) announced Professor Karen Bales as interim director, marking the first time a woman has held this position in the center’s history.
UC Davis researchers will use a new $3.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a nonhuman primate model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy to speed the development and testing of treatments for humans.
Aged and Unfazed: Older monkeys exhibit blunted nervous system response
In an experiment monitoring peripheral nervous system responses to mood-inducing videos, researchers from Eliza Bliss-Moreau’s lab at the California National Primate Research Center found the videos elicited a response from the monkeys based on content, but the response appeared blunted in older monkeys.
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