2019 Ignition Awards Recipients: The WaNPRC Pilot Program is conducted jointly with the Institute for Translational Health Sciences and provides funding to collect preliminary data for future funding opportunities. The goal is to fund projects with innovative research endeavors that have translational implications to move toward human applications. This year there was a competitive pool ...

The WaNPRC Pilot Program, which is conducted jointly with the Institute for Translational Health Sciences, has been presented previously in an earlier Weekly Update.  Since that time, the awards for the Fiscal Year 57 have been made and we want to present some short summaries of these protocols, to demonstrate the type(s) of research the ...

  Dr. Randall Kyes, Core Staff Scientist at the Washington National Primate Research Center, is working closely with Gibbon Conservation Centre of Aaranyak, conducting field courses for young conservationists in Northeast India for the past seven years. His work focuses on Conservation Biology and Global Health. In this clip, Dr. Kyes speaks about his association ...

KING 5’s Alison Morrow reports: Some of the country’s leading hantavirus experts are studying it from highly secured labs at the University of Washington in South Lake Union. King County officials are waiting on confirmation of another case of hantavirus, which would be the third since November. A woman from Redmond was diagnosed with it ...

Paper highlights the essential role nonhuman primates play in finding treatments for serious and life-altering conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, Zika virus, HIV/AIDS and Parkinson’s disease WASHINGTON — The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) announced today the release of the white paper, The Critical Role of Nonhuman Primates in Medical Research. The white paper ...

Infant Rhesus Macaques Show Normal Development after Receiving Pediatric Vaccines SEATTLE – Correlation of childhood vaccines and autism studied at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC). Study shows no evidence of autism-like behavior or neuropathology in rhesus macaques after receiving typical childhood vaccinations. All animals in the study developed normally after being administered thimerosal-containing ...

Heart Disease Research at Primate Center Started with $75,000 Ignition Pilot Program Award SEATTLE – Promising new heart disease treatment being researched at the Washington National Primate Research Center receives $10 million funding infusion from Washington Research Foundation to bring total funding to $25 million. The stem cell-derived therapy could change heart disease treatment following a ...

When Matthew Novak set foot on Tinjil Island in Indonesia this summer, it was a homecoming of sorts. Twenty years ago, Novak (BS, PhD, Psychology, 1993, 2002) participated in a month-long field study program on the remote island as a UW graduate student. He returned this year as a professor, along with four of his ...

For the more than 10 million Americans with colorblindness, there’s never been a treatment, let alone a cure, for the condition that leaves them unable to distinguish certain hues. Now, for the first time, Jay and Maureen Neitz of the University of Washington have teamed with a California biotech firm to develop what they say may ...

By Kevin Kwong The Daily Annually, the World Health Organization (WHO) commemorates March 24 as World Tuberculosis Day in recognition of the continued impact of tuberculosis (TB), a widespread, and in many cases, fatal disease. By their estimate, more than 9 million people worldwide fell ill with tuberculosis in 2013 and 1.5 million died. “The ...

No Neurodevelopmental or Behavioral Deficits Found in Vaccinated Non-Human Primates Critical study of MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) pediatric vaccine shows no harm to neurodevelopment, cognition or behavior in vaccinated nonhuman primate infants. Five-year case-control study by researchers at the Washington National Primate Research Center is published as United States sees measles resurgence. The study ...

For 25 years, Prof. Randy Kyes, in partnership with his international colleagues, have conducted annual educational field course focusing on conservation biology and global health for university students and professionals in countries around the world. Now Kyes and his colleagues provide a similar program to local students at Chief Leschi Tribal School in Puyallup, Washington. ...

Prototype Toy Allows Kids to See Effects of Body’s Electrical Signals SPARK Competition prize awarded to Robijanto Soetedjo, MD, PhD,  for prototype toy allowing kids to explore electrical signals from the human body. Dr. Soetedjo created platform while trying to explain his research to his own children — Dr. Soetedjo is a neuroscientist with the University of Washington ...

WaNPRC Scientist Receives Fullbright Specialist Grant Dr. Randall Kyes awarded with Fullbright Specialist grant. Kyes is a Core Scientist at the WaNPRC and Research Professor in Psychology and Adjunct in Global Health is the Director of the Center for Global Field Study with the University of Washington. Kyes will travel to Indonesia at the end ...

The Institute of Translational Health Science (ITHS) and the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) are pleased to sponsor an Ignition Award, focusing on the use of nonhuman primate models of human disease. The purpose of this Ignition Award is to explore innovative areas of nonhuman primate research and generate preliminary data to serve as ...

The appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2012 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 23, 2011. The bill includes provisions that formally establish the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) as a new component of the NIH.  This is an important step forward in NIH’s efforts to speed ...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Shiu-Lok Hu a $6.7 million grant that will enable his research team to join the Consortium for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), an international network of scientists launched by the Gates Foundation to design novel HIV vaccine candidates and advance the most promising candidates to clinical trials. Hu is a ...

Graduate student scholarships are now available for attendance at the Ethical Considerations in Research Collaborations Conference Sept. 22 – Sept. 23 at UW Meany Hall. A limited number of scholarships are available and will be awarded first to graduate students who submit an original abstract that represents their field of scholarly work AND is judged to ...

By Molly McElroy News and Information For 16 years, Randall Kyes, research professor in psychology and director of the UW Center for Global Field Study, has led undergraduate and graduate students on fieldwork expeditions to Indonesia. Once on Tinjil Island, a biodiversity hotspot and home of one of Southeast Asia’s premier primate natural habitat breeding ...

The Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) and the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) are pleased to sponsor the Ignition Award for research focusing on the use of nonhuman primate models of human disease. The purpose of the award is to explore innovative areas of nonhuman primate research and generate preliminary data to serve ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that a poorly understood class of RNA produced in a mammal’s cells during a respiratory virus attack may affect the outcome of the infection. Their findings are reported today in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. RNA (ribonucleic acid) contains information transcribed from the cell’s instruction ...

Paul McKellips, executive vice president for the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR), discussed public opinion on the use of animals in research in a presentation Oct. 6 in the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Building. McKellips’ multimedia presentation was designed for researchers, animal care personnel, security and facilities staff, and public affairs directors. Staff, faculty ...

Eberhard Fetz, WaNPRC core staff scientist and UW professor of physiology and biophysics, received the first Aspen Brain Forum Prize in Neurotechnology. The prize was awarded to Fetz for “work that has broad application and impact in translating basic research into effective therapeutics within the area of neural prosthetics.” Fetz is widely considered a pioneer in ...

Nancy Haigwood, director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center and WaNPRC affiliate scientist, co-authored a paper featured in the Oct. 3 issue of the journal Nature, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. Nancy’s paper is titled “Passive neutralizing antibody controls SHIV viremia and enhances B cell responses in infant macaques.” This research was supported ...