# Bicoastal Marmoset Breeding Center

> **NIH NIH U24** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $1,110,176

## Abstract

Project Summary
 The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has experienced unprecedented growth in research across the
United States and is rapidly emerging as a likely keystone biomedical model system in the next chapter of
scientific discovery. Over the past decade, the number of marmoset laboratories in the US has quadrupled.
There are now over 40 Principal Investigators who use marmoset as the model system in their research.
Neuroscience is the primary engine driving marmoset research today, as nearly three quarters of marmoset
researchers in the US use this model species to examine molecular, systems or cognitive functions in normal
and diseased brains. Although these grassroots have been successfully forged new paths of scientific inquiry
using marmosets in the U.S., critical bottlenecks have emerged that threaten to thwart the continued growth of
this emerging model system. We propose to establish a Bicoastal Marmoset Breeding center, with two
breeding colonies, one on the East Coast at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the other on the West Coast
at University of California at San Diego (UCSD). The Center aims to produce a large number of marmosets to
supply the marmoset research community in the U.S. Because of the non-availability of air transport of NHP in
U.S. and prohibitively expensive ground transportation of NHP between the east and west coast, these two
breeding colonies are strategically located to support the marmoset community in regions near each colony.
We believe such a center is needed to address the national shortage of marmosets in order for the marmoset
model to realize its full potential as a keystone species in the next chapter of neuroscience that serves to
accelerate the rate of discovery and better understand human neurological disease.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10217015
- **Project number:** 5U24MH123423-02
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** XIAOQIN WANG
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $1,110,176
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-07-15 → 2025-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10217015

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10217015, Bicoastal Marmoset Breeding Center (5U24MH123423-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10217015. Licensed CC0.

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