# The Simian Collective Conference

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2023 · $35,000

## Abstract

Project Summary.
This application is a request for funds to support a conference entitled the ‘Simian Collective’ that highlights
nonhuman primate neuroscience research in the United States, its unique role as a translational model of human
neuropsychiatric disorders, and how it seeks to build crucial community effort to address the key challenges
facing the field in the 21st Century. The conference is strategically organized to stress that maximizing the impact
of primate neuroscience research in the modern era necessitates complementary goals of Science, Ethics,
Education and Advocacy. Owing to the shared functional organization of the primate brain, our simian cousins
are uniquely powerful models to elucidate many facets of human brain function in both health and disease. This
cutting-edge research must continue to grow and receive renewed investments to prosper. The meeting will also
emphasize that the phylogenetic advantages of using a primate model, which shares many unique neural and
cognitive characteristics with humans, for investigative research must also be balanced by the crucial
neuroethical considerations that inevitably emerge because of these similarities. Furthermore, the Simian
Collective will also emphasize the responsibility of the field to educate our scientific colleagues and the general
population about the unique importance of primate research and to advocate for its significance. The program
of the meeting has been designed to emphasize the complementary relationship between these core tenets, and
to build a community initiative to build and promote primate neuroscience research in the coming years.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10754049
- **Project number:** 1R13NS134289-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** CORY T MILLER
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $35,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2023-09-06 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10754049

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10754049, The Simian Collective Conference (1R13NS134289-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10754049. Licensed CC0.

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