The Center is poised to add new BSL-3 facilities to our to our laboratory inventory. The addition of this facility has doubled our previous BSL-3 laboratory capacity. The new laboratory was carefully designed to accommodate and safely support several investigators’ research interests simultaneously.
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Center for Global Field Study will train environmental stewards worldwide
When Lauren Jorelle was a UW student, she went to Indonesia as part of a field study program sponsored by the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) and the UW Department of Psychology. The experience was a good one — so good that she elected to go back on her own to do further research through the Indonesian university the UW collaborates with.
WaNPRC neuroscientists explore ‘brain-machine interface’
Research by WaNPRC scientists Eberhard Fetz, Chet Moritz and Steve Perlmutter on how the brain might be rewired to get around a paralyzing injury and directly re-animate immobilized limbs was featured in the Oct. 16, 2008 issue of Nature magazine.