# CARIBBEAN PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER

> **NIH NIH P40** · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES · 2020 · $423,800

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT:
The major goal of this application is to improve and maintain the Caribbean Primate Research Center's (CPRC)
unique research resources through support of operations, administration, veterinary care and research. The
CPRC consists of four integrated facilities: (1) Cayo Santiago, the most valuable of the CPRC research resources
that holds a colony of free-ranging rhesus brought from India to Cayo Santiago (CS) in 1938.; (2) the Sabana
Seca Field Station, the CPRC's head quarters located 10 miles outside of San Juan that houses rhesus monkeys
derived from Cayo Santiago colony in various outdoor configurations for biomedical and behavioral studies
that are not feasible on free-ranging animals; (3) the Laboratory of Virology and Genetics (LVG), located on the
Medical Sciences Campus (MSC), in San Juan which support several research initiatives using rhesus monkeys
as a model; and (4) the Laboratory of Primate Morphology (LPM), which is also located on the MSC, and
houses the CPRC skeletal collections, unique assemblages of nonhuman primate skeletons for genetic,
developmental, pathological and anatomical research. As described in this proposal, CPRC is organized into
four complementary and integrated divisions: Primate Resources, Virology and Genetics, Behavior and
Neurosciences, and Primate Morphology. Funds are requested in this application to maintain CPRC basic
infrastructure of Primate Resources, which are used to support numerous research projects locally, national
and internationally. This grant will also allow CPRC to seek additional support to develop the Translational
Science Initiative (TSI) under the Applied Research Component. A major strength of this TSI is conducting
multidisciplinary collaborative studies to establish and validate NHP models for preclinical translational
projects related to different human diseases. With continued NIH support, the CPRC will remain a significant
national research resource and will be able to provide healthy indian-origin rhesus monkeys of defined genetic
and virological background to NIH-sponsored research programs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10106360
- **Project number:** 3P40OD012217-33S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Melween I. Martinez
- **Activity code:** P40 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $423,800
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-05-15 → 2020-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10106360

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10106360, CARIBBEAN PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER (3P40OD012217-33S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10106360. Licensed CC0.

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