SimianCollective
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SimianCollective
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Our mission is to create/sustain a supportive community of scientists, showcasing indispensable role of nonhuman primates in scientific and medical discovery
Katılım Kasım 2023
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SimCo and the European Animal Research Association (EARA) join forces. At SimianCollective 2025 @kirk_EARA from @The_EARA will present the EU perspective as well as EU-Simia Japan 2025 !!! eujapan2025.sciencesconf.org
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REGISTRATION IS HAPPENING NOW !!!
Come join us at SimCo 2025 in Durham !! Register now for early bird discount and re-share!!!
simiancollective.com/2025-conference
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2025 Simian Collective Conference in Durham. Abstracts and young investigator solicitations:
Extended deadline. 5/31 !!!!!
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🐒🦠 Monkeys with Mpox helped researchers from @helmholtz_de trace the virus to its likely source: wild rope squirrels.
Read more 👉 eara.eu/post/monkeys-i…
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🐒 Monkeys: Unlocking the Brain’s Mysteries 🐒
Monkeys play a vital role in neuroscience research, helping scientists understand complex diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and autism. Their contributions have also led to the development of life-saving vaccines. #BRADWeek2025
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🐒 Dutch gov report confirms: Monkeys remain vital to drug development & disease research. NAMs aren't there yet to replace all NHP studies. #AnimalResearch #SciencePolicy
eara.eu/post/dutch-gov…
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From rats to dogs to macaques — 2024 breakthroughs in #AnimalResearch are changing medicine.
🔬 Smart insulin, brain implants, lab-grown dog skin & more:
👉 eara.eu/post/feature-h…
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2025 Simian Collective Conference in Durham. Abstracts and young investigator solicitations:
Due May 15th!!!!
simiancollective.com
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@bita137 @hubermanlab Absolutely. Per study, NHPs are not more expensive than mice; they are less expensive.
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I doubt @hubermanlab or proponents of ketamine use know that without NHP research, that drug would not have been discovered
It will be shortsighted to stop NHP research in US because "it is expensive" when a few NHPs may provide far more valuable data than thousands of mice
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The new NIH director says “Second, NIH-supported science should be replicable, reproducible, and generalizable.” NHP are exactly that. One if not the most generalizable and reproducible research model organism.
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@cryptothaler @hubermanlab @moderndad @NIH @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector Simulations are a wonderful and increasingly important tool for discovery. Validation however matters just as much. If we could simulate it all we would not need any animal research. Currently we can’t however and we are a long way from it.
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@hubermanlab @moderndad @NIH @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector Bio-simulations in Silico will become the norm through Omics modeling.
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This sent to me today from @NIH
@realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr now on the wall @NIH Clinical Center entry. Today @DrJBhattacharya will no doubt be elected @NIHDirector. March 14 is continuing resolution of the budget decision. Below explain what likely will happen.
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@prokraustinator @hubermanlab @moderndad @NIH @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector You can find rough numbers in our 2023 NASEM report. As we stated. NHP research is actually cheaper than a lot of (but not all of course) mouse research.
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@hubermanlab @moderndad @NIH @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector I know the conventional wisdom is that NPHs are expensive but do you have actual numbers?
"Modern" mouse research costs a fortune: transgenic animals, fancy scopes, etc. Meanwhile, you can do a lot with a cheap Intan setup ($15k) and some microwires
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@hubermanlab @moderndad @NIH @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector Would be a huge mistake. Science is ready to study the brain circuits involved in some of the biggest mysteries (intelligence, mood, sanity) & how those go awry in brain disorders. Many of those brain circuits don't exist in mice & we can't study these things directly in humans.
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@CoryMillerMarmo @hubermanlab @moderndad @NIH @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector One would think the Republican agenda would be to roll back the red tape to make research less costly and more efficient. And replicable. And translatable. If those were indeed their goals, of course.
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@hubermanlab @moderndad @NIH @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @RobertKennedyJr @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector @hubermanlab No airlines will fly primates (international or domestic). Trucking monkeys across the country costs tens of thousands of dollars each trip and requires getting permits for every state they travel through.
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This would be a huge disservice to patients with neurological diseases. Speaking from my little corner of science, the remarkable recent progress in brain-computer interfaces to restore lost abilities (like speaking, moving, walking) were made possible by NHP studies!
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab
Let’s just say I have my sources. I don’t necessarily think they’re going to stop it, but it’s extremely expensive and that makes it a candidate for the chopping block. Also, it’s controversial. The new trend elsewhere has been to maintain primates out of country where risk of infections is lower and cost of doing research is far lower as well. I know, researchers that maintain their mice in Singapore for a tiny fraction of the cost and then ship them in for experiments. Again at a fraction of the cost to maintain them at universities here. But not everyone can do that. Depends on the work you’re doing.
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@bita137 @hubermanlab Even more to our point. Thank you for the clarification and correction.
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@Macacophile @hubermanlab I would not actually call that discovery serendipitous. Its effect was intentionally tested in NHP and compared with rodents because well trained behavioral neuroscientists know most drugs affect primates and rodents very differently
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Spot on Bita! Additionally, NHP research is actually not more expensive than modern systems mouse work. It also makes up a tiny sliver of the fiscal pie despite its tremendous impact.
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I doubt @hubermanlab or proponents of ketamine use know that without NHP research, that drug would not have been discovered It will be shortsighted to stop NHP research in US because "it is expensive" when a few NHPs may provide far more valuable data than thousands of mice
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