# Caribbean Primate Research Center Program

> **NIH NIH P40** · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES · 2022 · $2,361,241

## 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 Field Station, 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 continue supporting 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:** 10348648
- **Project number:** 5P40OD012217-35
- **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:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $2,361,241
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1987-04-15 → 2023-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10348648

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10348648, Caribbean Primate Research Center Program (5P40OD012217-35). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10348648. Licensed CC0.

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