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The Impact Factor for our Society’s journal, the American Journal of Primatology, was recently announced to have increased yet again, from 2.371 in 2020 to 3.014 in 2021. It remains the primatology journal with the highest Impact Factor. Congratulations again to Dr. Karen Bales, Editor-in-Chief, and her Editorial Board!
Symposium proposal/abstract dates set for ASP Denver 2022
January 20, 2022
Symposium proposals may be submitted from March 21-April 15. Abstracts may be submitted from April 15-May 15. Please see the Call under the Meetings tab.
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American Society of Primatologists’ Board of Directors Comments on NIH’s Decision to Phase Out Research with Live Non-Human Primates in the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology in Poolesville, MD
April 20, 2021
The National Institutes of Health’s December 11, 2015, decision to phase out research with live non-human primates at Dr. Stephen Soumi’s Laboratory of Comparative Ethology in Poolesville, MD will have widespread—and unknown—effects on primate studies in the United States. Approximately 300 rhesus macaques will be transferred to unspecified locations in the next three years. Work on normal […]
American Society of Primatologists’ Board of Directors Comments on the Use of Primates in Biomedical Research
April 20, 2021
January 27, 2015 The members of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Primatologists would like to add our comments to the discussion of the validity and effectiveness of non-human primate research as it pertains to human behavior and medicine. Non-human primate research (on monkeys and apes) has had widespread effect on improving […]